Coving straight after skimming

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Sorry to revive an old thread but I am hoping for some clarification on this.

I have a Hallway skim and coving job coming up, should the skim be fully dry before coving (ie. come back another day) or can it be done on the day of skim?
 
Not full dry,but set. score the plaster before putting up your cove.
I prefer doin it before its fully dried out tbh .
 
Fatarm said:
Not full dry,but set. score the plaster before putting up your cove.
I prefer doin it before its fully dried out tbh .
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Thanks, it's going to be quite a thick skim as its over combed artex so do you think it'll be best to cove the next day? It's a 2 day job so this would work out well if poss.
 
Skimble said:
Thanks, it's going to be quite a thick skim as its over combed artex so do you think it'll be best to cove the next day? It's a 2 day job so this would work out well if poss.
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Sounds like a plan, if that suits you.I thought you were wanting in and out same. day?
 
Skimble said:
Got a bathroom to skim as well so I can work it out. Just glad I don't have to leave it until fully dry. Thanks for your advice.
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In future if you have a job that's skim board then cove you could put the cove up first(onto the board) then skim in the afternoon. I don't do this myself,prefer to come back and stick it onto the plastered ceiling.
 
**** that. Skim it and cove it afterwards. Done it this way since i started and never had a problem.
 
jamesthefirst said:
You mean a plastered wall as well as ceiling?
If it's painted you score it, don't you?
What adhesive do you prefer?
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Yeah James both wall and ceiling plastered, but if the paint is sound I have no problem putting it up without scoring it.
I either use BG cove adhesive or drywall adhesive, not that I do much coving nowadays.
 
As long as the plaster is hard to the touch then you can fit straight too it. If using cove adhesive you don't need to key fresh plaster. CA120 or fibre fix bond perfectly to fresh plaster.

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yep. id only use a very small brush to apply the pva, if its left too much under cove line the paint runs on it and u can see the shine of it after finish. learned from that mistaake a fewc years back :glare:
 
that said though an observant painter should cop this before priming and get in there with some sandpaper the lazy geebags:RpS_wink:
 
i purchased a bag of cove adhesive today, instead of having british gypsum writen on the bag was the word artex, but it did have the british gypsum sign the stripes with bg. so i presume that british gypsum has purchased the artex company?
 
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