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Why is cove adhesive so fecking expensive? Been using dry wall adhesive to boom it up!! Anybody else use it? Had any problems?
 
You should always use the correct product for the correct application....or you will nullify the coving warranty...... Anyway, any spread worth his salt knows that drywall addy is for sticking plastic render beads on......some right chancers in this place FFS
 
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cove adhesive is expensive as it's right tool for the job.
Also depends on where you buy it and which brand. There two good ones to pick.
Fibrefix by British gypsum or
Ca 120 by Lafarge

Fibrefix average price is about 30quid?

Ca120 can get it as low as about 18

I use ca 120. Tried drywall and tbh it doesn't grab as well imo. For the price it will do the job. And if ur not gonna use a full bag of.adheaive then would be fine. But for.me using it everyday ill stick with ca 120
 
bobspread said:
cove adhesive is easier to use , nice gear for filling your mitres
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I'm a tight *******, but happy to shell out 13 quid for a 12.5KG bag of BG Cove adhesive. May chuck the odd handful of Lafarge bonding compound in to make it go further ... but I never use Lafarge cove adhesive as it is shite! :RpS_confused:
 
mikeadams1985 said:
cove adhesive is expensive as it's right tool for the job.
Also depends on where you buy it and which brand. There two good ones to pick.
Fibrefix by British gypsum or
Ca 120 by Lafarge

Fibrefix average price is about 30quid?

Ca120 can get it as low as about 18

I use ca 120. Tried drywall and tbh it doesn't grab as well imo. For the price it will do the job. And if ur not gonna use a full bag of.adheaive then would be fine. But for.me using it everyday ill stick with ca 120
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We've tried them all and find ca 120
Best by far , in the grand scheme our material costs are small compared to
Labour costs




Irish Fine Art Plasterwork
 
Many moons ago I used to use Gyproc cove adhesive. Could put up a whole room with a guage. Finished the mitres with a string and casting plaster. Benefit was it came in 5kg bags and sticks like S**t to a blanket. Do not know if still available though
 
topstrop1 said:
Many moons ago I used to use Gyproc cove adhesive. Could put up a whole room with a guage. Finished the mitres with a string and casting plaster. Benefit was it came in 5kg bags and sticks like S**t to a blanket. Do not know if still available though
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Still do the 5KG, but the 12.5KG is only a couple of quid dearer!

A you say, knock some up & do a room no problem. :RpS_thumbsup:
 
when i was artexing we always used artex put up coving , it was quick and easy to clean down with a spronge, used in my house , been up nearly 10 years no problem :RpS_thumbsup:
 
Small enriched cornice.Used to do four hotel rooms a day.Scaffold out, Snap lines and put soldiers on wall to hold in place Cut the whole room bed it up and do top and bottom lines. go to next room put up scaffold repeat same except go back and fill the mitres
 
ryanswart said:
You need to ravish Topstrop and Mike as they are experts in frolicking naked and rubbing lube over each other for some fun!. I have learnt a lot from those two guys and hopefully puddove get involved soon so we can have a gang bang !!;)
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Yet again Ryan you disgust me !! :RpS_crying:
 
mikeadams1985 said:
cove adhesive is expensive as it's right tool for the job.
Also depends on where you buy it and which brand. There two good ones to pick.
Fibrefix by British gypsum or
Ca 120 by Lafarge

Fibrefix average price is about 30quid?

Ca120 can get it as low as about 18

I use ca 120. Tried drywall and tbh it doesn't grab as well imo. For the price it will do the job. And if ur not gonna use a full bag of.adheaive then would be fine. But for.me using it everyday ill stick with ca 120
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Whats your system if say the ceiling is new dried skim but painted walls?
Can you use the 2 products you mentioned to fix bog standard coving?
 
What I normally do james is just wet new paster(no need to PvA with these products) and score painted walls/ceilings.
yes you can stick coving up with it.
No I don't use this on coving, use BG or similar!!!!
 
Agree with Mike . Dont wet with PVA it leaves a residue on walls and ceiling. I put PVA on the strike off to stop suction in the cast.Score the wall and ceiling line Do not bed up with casting plaster it swells and can break the bond
 
topstrop1 said:
Many moons ago I used to use Gyproc cove adhesive. Could put up a whole room with a guage. Finished the mitres with a string and casting plaster. Benefit was it came in 5kg bags and sticks like S**t to a blanket. Do not know if still available though
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Topstrop what do you mean mate by finishing the mitres with a string ??

Do you use it to follow the profile and cut excess gear away ?
 
String is a thread out of the hessian. Wet the miters , dip the string in the plaster for filling the joints. Tuck it in the joint then when the plaster picks up (gels) fill and clean off the mitres. As Mike will tell you cornice fixing is all about cutting the mitres right. Also with enriched cornice unless you are being paid for balanced mitres you will nearly always find one that does not match. You can use bedded on embellishments to cover mitres or pick the least seen one ie (corner by the door as you enter the room). With regard to Fibrefix merchant price is £18 per bag in 56 bag pallets from BG and £20 on a mixed pallet. Merchants do not like to carry to much hence the price they charge
 
Ryan it depends on what you are being paid for the job . You can stretch the rubber mould to get balance, you can leave an amount of enrichment off or do as was done in the days of lime plaster, run the cornice and dress it with embellishment.It is not difficult to stop in the mitres if you CUT them correctly you will end up with a 2mm maximum regular gap all the way up. But bog standard enriched which is most of the market will probably leave you with one non matching mitre hence the planted enrichment on all the mitres. Most customers don't even worry its about walking into the room being pleasing to the eye. The same goes with bowing walls ceilings. It is better to keep the wall line straight as that is what you see when you are in the room.
 
take alook at this picture, you MIRROR the enrichments as youi can see, the last mitre you will do WONT do this, unless as said you stretch the mould and work it out, but this is timely and VERY costly.
So you start above the door you enter and work around, finishing above the door you enter, that way where the enrichments done match up, its the last place any one looks, most people will walk in, see the cornice then by the time they have turned around dont look at it in such great detail. So you can get away with it.,

this is from google,, not my work
Cove adhesive price
 
mikeadams1985 said:
take alook at this picture, you MIRROR the enrichments as youi can see, the last mitre you will do WONT do this, unless as said you stretch the mould and work it out, but this is timely and VERY costly.
So you start above the door you enter and work around, finishing above the door you enter, that way where the enrichments done match up, its the last place any one looks, most people will walk in, see the cornice then by the time they have turned around dont look at it in such great detail. So you can get away with it.,

this is from google,, not my work
Cove adhesive price
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Wonder if its Ryan's hanywork?? :RpS_confused:
 
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