any ideas lads?

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Recently i took a contract on coving 85 houses, I asked on this site advice for the best way to stick it up on old council houses,

I had all intentions of doing the job with cove adesive, I tried it but it took to long and more mess as the people are living in, (they are having full rewires with the wires run tight along some ceiling lines) I had to pva then mix the stuff then clean off,

I then tried tile adesive worked ok but I only had @10 mins to wipe off as the adesive goes hard pretty quick on the cove,

I found the best way on old houses and quickest by a mile is corking, now the problem I have now is my arm is tighting up through sqeezing the cork gun all day around 20 tubes a day I know its a long shot but anyone know of a corking gun that works easier than a normal £1.50 corking gun

come on lads someone must know something
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if you use caulk to fix coving to 85 house its gona cost a fortune surely. using dri-wall or cove adesive isnt that mess is it.

what u wana do is get a mate to help you Dub up
 
you cannot seriously be using caulk to stick coving??? use caulk to fill in the gaps but to stick it up never, easifill is good one
 
artex all the time,plus we have a large bakers iceing bag that we fill with the artex,takes no time at all to put on the back of the coving
 
i use knauf board adhesive, 1 its white, 2 it goes off well quick enough...
but if your dead set on spending all that cash on acrylic... go see the local window / plastics suppliers... they'll kit you out with a box of caulk for around a quid a tube and a decent cox mastic gun (the red/orange and black one) make sure its a cox gun though..
we used em cos in winter when the silicons gone hard they're geared up better...
some caulk is thicker than others too...
another thing though... i find board adhesive washes off better than caulk..
 
this site is something else, best test fastest, that is exactly what I need, never thought anything like this exsisted will order one tonight thanks again m8,

been in this game many years lads you have to find the fastest, and cleanest and easiest way of doing jobs, as for the cost its only around 75p per tube wholesale or so I have been told, I dont supply but that thats £15 per day per house thats nothing on a big job

I am doing 3 or 4 rooms per day full of furniture you cannot move to do the job its almost imposible to coat a lenth up with cove ad or artex when working in tight conditions

my job is a plasterer /cover done them both all my life if I got a m8 what would he do? useing cork it takes 1/2 mins to wipe a lenth off myself no mixing to do no mess no second wage and I have allways fixed cove myself never needed a m8
 
well, seein as your in with the furniture etc... id prolly be lookin at doin the same thing, like you said, its impossible to get through a council house full of crap in a decent time limit and keep it clean with a bucket full of gook...
i gotta ask the question though, WHY??
i mean, is this just a council contract for coving only?
is this just another example of the council using up the budget?
' errrr we got 10 grand left over, i know, lets go and give all the tennants down acacia ave some nice new coving to paint'... :-?
 
Bigsegs they say it will save £500 per house by coving after the rewire they are the old flat roof houses bomb proof with the sparkys running the wires along the ceiling line the cove is there ti hide the wires
 
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