landowner said:
Mornin
Dull and cool here
Out for lunch with a lady friend today :)
Nearly finished me coving, kept cutting angles wrong 🤔
Stay calm, weekends here :)
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Coving can be a real poop to cut especially if your angles ain't right angles! I once did some plaster coving and ended up using the silly bit of paper they gave you to wrap around it, mark along and cut. Amazingly it worked very well!! Typically a 1920s front room with a chimney wall and a bay window. Didn't go in the bay in the end! Made some sort of a decorative end to it both sides.

And it makes your arms ache after fiddling about with it for a while.
So best of luck with getting it done.;):)
 
marjon said:
Why?
Are you using 1 of them mitre block things? I made my own 2x2 bit of board (pretend its the ceiling) with wood upstands (pretend they are walls internal or external) the up stands are the size of the coving apart and height so it is square. Job done :D.
Gonna burn it when I run out of rooms that need coving:D.

J
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Nice way of doing it.
Pleased to say we have no coving in any rooms over here. Just means you have to even more careful when cutting in. ;)

Ex-son-in-law once decided to make his own coving for a 1920s house. I don't know where he got it from but he had a silicon mould that he used to make the sections in. time consuming and everything but it did look the dogs nads. I helped him put some of it up.

He went back to the house a day or two later and quite a lot of bits had fallen off!! He had forgotten that it was not in a warm part of the year and the house had no heating in. So the adhesive didn't do the biz! Either that or he had put them up too quickly and the plaster hadn't dried out. Can't remember if he used nails to hold it in place!
Still all it cost him was time and more plaster to make new ones!! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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marjon said:
Why?
Are you using 1 of them mitre block things? I made my own 2x2 bit of board (pretend its the ceiling) with wood upstands (pretend they are walls internal or external) the up stands are the size of the coving apart and height so it is square. Job done :D.
Gonna burn it when I run out of rooms that need coving:D.

J
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Only ever bought a mitre block thing once. TOTAL poop. may as well have been made of jelly. Got it from Scroofix. And the mitres saw that came with it was bent as a banana. Two of, if not the two, worst things I ever got from them. Both got flown off the balcony.:mad::mad::mad:
 
marjon said:
Why?
Are you using 1 of them mitre block things? I made my own 2x2 bit of board (pretend its the ceiling) with wood upstands (pretend they are walls internal or external) the up stands are the size of the coving apart and height so it is square. Job done :D.
Gonna burn it when I run out of rooms that need coving:D.

J
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I'd have had to have made one of the upstands hinged, with some sort of wingnut type locking device so it could be used to mirror the corners that were out of true. But again not imposssible. ;)
 
marjon said:
Hope W is ok to fly back. Sure you have said why before and it must be important to break the time in France.
So what are you gonna be upto while the "cats" away or do you have a list too :oops:.

J
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She is better today, thanks for asking.:)
She has a lump in her lower intestine so wide that the other doc couldn't get the sigmoidiscope past it to look beyond. So the lump will have to be removed one way or another. As you can imagine having it nearly blocked off leads to real problems. At least they told her it is not malignant.
So she is off to chat to the surgeon, whom she has never met, presumably for him to tell her the options.
I wish I could be with her but the animals etc preclude it. Still she will be with her daughter who is far from stupid so hopefully all the correct questions will be asked then and will not have to asked later.
Then she'll get the surgery after we get back.

My "list" is never ending, so of course I'll be "on it" as well as on other stuff that has cropped up this year. I still have all the damaged tiles to take to the dump frinstance! ;)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I'd have had to have made one of the upstands hinged, with some sort of wingnut type locking device so it could be used to mirror the corners that were out of true. But again not imposssible. ;)
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Coving can be very forgiving , fill gaps with plaster and sand;), well maybe not what the UK has, but here its a cross between artex and thistle.
If you need anymore than that you should have sacked the builders long before they got to ceiling level:oops:.

J
 
marjon said:
Coving can be very forgiving , fill gaps with plaster and sand;), well maybe not what the UK has, but here its a cross between artex and thistle.
If you need anymore than that you should have sacked the builders long before they got to ceiling level:oops:.

J
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Should have thought about that, jumped in the Tardis and gone back to 1928 to give them a piece of my mind!
As it was plaster coving part of the problem was making the joins in the long runs and when I finally was finishing off making the last little run out of three bits, cos too short of dosh to buy another length. By then I had learned to fill the join with plaster and sand it back using a bit of abrasive paper wrapped round an aerosol can. It got painted obvs as that was why I put it up. But I could still see the diagonal ridge in the first long run where I had yet to learn how to do it properly.

I only did it cos I thought I'd have to sell it as the divorce was pending, but I then met W and we were able to buy the ex out and move in so we benefitted from it until we moved into her bigger place that we had rented out and rented my old one out. Sold it to pay for the French build.
 
marjon said:
Afternoon folks:).

So wammm here again, and a notice in the mayors office window has appeared banning hosepipe use, Maybe its that they are trying to warn peeps "if you waste it its gone" We will see how long it takes to turn into, the water is off today and probably tomorrow, but your village will get it on even days. Yeah right:rolleyes:.

J
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Marjon you need to build a underground storage tank like we have even if you only fill it from the mains it would make you more independent and level out the Lowe's
 
landowner said:
Mornin
Dull and cool here
Out for lunch with a lady friend today :)
Nearly finished me coving, kept cutting angles wrong 🤔
Stay calm, weekends here :)
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marjon said:
Why?
Are you using 1 of them mitre block things? I made my own 2x2 bit of board (pretend its the ceiling) with wood upstands (pretend they are walls internal or external) the up stands are the size of the coving apart and height so it is square. Job done :D.
Gonna burn it when I run out of rooms that need coving:D.
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+1
Once you have the "Upside-Down & Wrong-way-round" sorted out in your head a simple box with positioning rails is all you need. Keep your "wrong" scraps to use as marking-out tools.
To get any angle right (even if the walls aren't square to each other. just pencil the lines of the 2 scrap pieces on the ceiling, where they cross over is your exact "cut-to" point.
Offer up your actual pieces and mark off as per your ceiling mark. Cut, butter with adhesive, apply! :D
 
Went into town having just realised that as it was a Friday, after a bank holiday on a Thursday, they would of course be "faire(ing) the pont!"
Seeing as they do this every time there is a day between the BH and the weekend I wonder how many extra days off the Frogs get each year?
Slightly offset by the fact that if a festival falls on a weekend, then tough, they don't get the day off.

Yet STILL their productivity is supposed to behigher than the UKs.

Luckily the two shops I needed were still open.
 
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