Removing solid coving

[Mawa1]

Hi, removing coving from a room so that I can then overboard a ceiling (yes I've thought about dropping ceiling or overboarding with shadow gap but after extensive reading/ advice decided to go with this option).

All the YouTube videos/ threads on here for removing plaster coving seem to suggest knocking through the coving, getting a bar behind it and then popping out. However, as you can see, mine is solid with no gap between coving and lime mortar behind.

Currently I'm just going at it using a hammer and chisel- slow work and taking off chunks off the lime mortar and plaster behind and the plaster on the ceiling. The damage doesn't matter too much as I am skimming walls and ceiling, after overboarding ceiling. But does anyone know a quicker way?? Seen multitool mentioned, how would that work??

 

[Nicm]

Should be a law against removing old cornice.

 

[MakeItSmooth]

Hi, removing coving from a room so that I can then overboard a ceiling (yes I've thought about dropping ceiling or overboarding with shadow gap but after extensive reading/ advice decided to go with this option).

All the YouTube videos/ threads on here for removing plaster coving seem to suggest knocking through the coving, getting a bar behind it and then popping out. However, as you can see, mine is solid with no gap between coving and lime mortar behind.

Currently I'm just going at it using a hammer and chisel- slow work and taking off chunks off the lime mortar and plaster behind and the plaster on the ceiling. The damage doesn't matter too much as I am skimming walls and ceiling, after overboarding ceiling. But does anyone know a quicker way?? Seen multitool mentioned, how would that work??

Please tell me you're going to get it recorniced properly, and not just throw up some crappy over-simplified modern-day generic coving?

 

[smoother09]

Please tell me you're going to get it recorniced properly, and not just throw up some crappy over-simplified modern-day generic coving?

You know he won't he just looking for cheap option

 

[MakeItSmooth]

You know he won't he just looking for cheap option

I always try to live in hope that millenials will make some effort to respect 20th century craftsmanship and original property features.

 

[smoother09]

I always try to live in hope that millenials will make some effort to respect 20th century craftsmanship and original property features.

I love cornice it is a real shame! I've had customers saying we don't like it! I think there crazy

 

[MakeItSmooth]

I love cornice it is a real shame! I've had customers saying we don't like it! I think there crazy

2 of my pet peeves are 4inch pencil round skirting and cheap-ass coving (or no coving at all).

No class.

Nice bit of 7" or 9" Torus or Ogee skirting and some solid plaster traditional cornice always makes Victorian and Edwardian properties look a class apart from modern houses, IMO.

 

[Monkey Boy]

We got an expensive sofa but I sit on the floor and this is my view

 

[MakeItSmooth]

We got an expensive sofa but I sit on the floor and this is my view
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In all my life, I've never seen that 'stepped-flats' style

 

[Monkey Boy]

In all my life, I've never seen that 'stepped-flats' style View attachment 64978

Art Deco

 

[Rossi46]

We got an expensive sofa but I sit on the floor and this is my view
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Some work in that

 

[Monkey Boy]

Some work in that

Your right. What the blinds are screwed to is sapelle timber rebated to match the cornice style

 

[MakeItSmooth]

Art Deco

I've seen Art Deco - just not Art Deco cornice.

Learn something new every day!

 

[Monkey Boy]

I've seen Art Deco - just not Art Deco cornice.

Learn something new every day!

I took a risk
Got two lengths still on stairs waiting for me to do the hall
Been there about 5 years

 

[John j]

Hi, removing coving from a room so that I can then overboard a ceiling (yes I've thought about dropping ceiling or overboarding with shadow gap but after extensive reading/ advice decided to go with this option).

All the YouTube videos/ threads on here for removing plaster coving seem to suggest knocking through the coving, getting a bar behind it and then popping out. However, as you can see, mine is solid with no gap between coving and lime mortar behind.

Currently I'm just going at it using a hammer and chisel- slow work and taking off chunks off the lime mortar and plaster behind and the plaster on the ceiling. The damage doesn't matter too much as I am skimming walls and ceiling, after overboarding ceiling. But does anyone know a quicker way?? Seen multitool mentioned, how would that work??

Bigger hammer . More bonding

 

[John j]

I love cornice it is a real shame! I've had customers saying we don't like it! I think there crazy

Did job couple of months back . Wasn't old but was fancy . I said what you want to pull it down for. He said he can't be assed to paint it. He had a point so I got.hammer

 

[jamesthefirst]

@mike adams used to put up lots of art deco

 

[Stevieo]

Hi, removing coving from a room so that I can then overboard a ceiling (yes I've thought about dropping ceiling or overboarding with shadow gap but after extensive reading/ advice decided to go with this option).

All the YouTube videos/ threads on here for removing plaster coving seem to suggest knocking through the coving, getting a bar behind it and then popping out. However, as you can see, mine is solid with no gap between coving and lime mortar behind.

Currently I'm just going at it using a hammer and chisel- slow work and taking off chunks off the lime mortar and plaster behind and the plaster on the ceiling. The damage doesn't matter too much as I am skimming walls and ceiling, after overboarding ceiling. But does anyone know a quicker way?? Seen multitool mentioned, how would that work??

Plastering hammer. That's what you need.

 

[superspread]

Couple of jobs I done in last few weeks

 

[Deleted member 46546]

Couple of jobs I done in last few weeks

Bodgy

 

[superspread]

Bodgy