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Because of reasons I've had to rip some coving off, not just on a localised area either, it's the hole house so that's fine.
A rather fetching shade of jobby brown lurks beneath said polystyrene so I'm left with a coverup job. It's not going to be more covege so do you think I'd see a result from Zinnser stain blocker before I attempt to emulsion the life out of that area?
No wonder decorators charge like bulls..
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I am guessing that it is polystyrene coving and the brown stuff is the adhesive?
Why don't you test it by giving it a coat of emulsion before deciding whether it needs Zinnser stain blocker?
The brown is the ceiling paint applied originally, the coving was applied on top then the white emulsion, leaving me a brown rim.
70's isn't it?
Leave as is and justify like Kevin McCloud?
"The ceiling is engaging with the walls in a dialogue that reveals a strong narrative within its own context"
Some nice coving would cover that a treat.
Is that brown paint or the original plaster skimcoat? Assuming the coving was put up as soon as the ceiling had been skimmed there would have been no point painting right to the walls. Either way there's a fair bit of filling and sanding needed. If it's just plaster it'll need a mist coat (50:50 water and any old crappy paint you have spare) before the final coats are applied.
Only way is to paint it all brown and replace your wardrobe contents with vintage paisly items from charity shops to match.
leaving me a brown rim
Hell of a set up to get to that punchline!
I think you should apply architectural **** and accept as is. It's the story of the building
Superfresco will hide that.
Superfresco will hide that
Don't think I hadn't thunk of that.
Move house?
Hack all the plaster off and use the opportunity to insulate the walls before some fresh dry lining, skim, and prep and skim the ceiling before getting a beautiful fresh finish?
Suspend tapestries from the ceiling a few cm from the wall for a home/castle style? Thereby covering up the brown edges.
from the photo it looks fairly rough where the coving was. If that is the case then it will need some significant prep to get a reasonable finish. If you’re OK with a rough finish temporarily then you could consider a good clean then some indoor textured paint applied in a ‘smooth’ fashion?
I’d call in a professional. Or try and travel back in time and undo my coving removal as the lesser of two evils.
good luck!
Is that artex on the wall above the doorway btw? It looks like it. If you decide to start rubbing it down and generally disturbing it bear in mind that artex often contains asbestos and should be tested.
I don't know why you removed the old coving, whether the moulding was badly damaged or just ugly, but I honestly think that that a very simple curved coving is a lovely way to finish a ceiling rather a 90° angle whose wonkiness is highlighted by the contrast between the walls and the ceilings.
70’s isn’t it?
Back to Artex it is then.
A quick coat of magnolia and it's job well and truly jobbied.
Is that artex on the wall above the doorway btw?
Bro, do you even Superfresco?
Because of reasons
That's how it always starts with DIY...
I ve just done this at mine, there's some v light artex, builders overboarding, win win.
Surely putting coving back up is the answer?
Woodchip wallpaper - Ye Gads 😮
Yip it's a world of pain. So a block it is with lashings of emulshun, yay!
That looks like a job for proper plaster coving. Looks about 1000000x better than the polystyrene stuff.
Wood chip wallpaper over everything, artex the ceiling, and paint the lot Magnolia.
Job jobbed 😉
Just buy yourself a couple of really lovely bikes and pulley system so that you can store them at ceiling height along the line of the brown stain. No right thinking person will notice the stain .
Just wait until you steam the woodchip off and the plaster comes with it.
Definitely recommend plaster coving to cover that. Far easier than trying to paper over or fill the ceiling/wall gap any other way.
Is that artex on the wall above the doorway btw?
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Bro, do you even Superfresco?
Well it's the non-textured border in the corner that threw me, I expect to see that with artex not woodchip wallpaper, very strange!
Edit : Looking at the top of the wall where the coving was I can see that the woodchip stops a couple of inches before the corner. I wonder if it was deliberate or they ran out?
2 coats of decent trade pure brilliant white will cover the brown. Stain blocker is for sealing in anything that would otherwise seep through the water based emulsion - it’s not just thick paint.
it does look a mess tho and no amount of paint is going to solve that.
I once had a go at boarding and skimming a ceiling back in my foolish student days - it was a disaster - but I cunningly installed 500w of halogen downlighters (90’s innit) so the room was so intensely bright that the ceiling could not actually be observed other than through a welding mask - so you could try that.
other than that, I’m with the rest of them up there - put coving up, it’s literally invented to allow slap dash building methods to look not totally dogshit