Coving on angled ceiling?

Battersea174

Hi,

We're in the process of doing up our first house so this is all very new to us and we'd be grateful for some advice please! We've just had our bedrooms replastered and there's a slight slope to the ceiling on the external wall. How would you recommend coving this (if at all)? Unfortunately I can't upload pictures as a new user.

Many thanks!

Battersea174

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Apodemus

Battersea174 wrote: »

suffixs the below to ibb.co websites based url
xKkPFC7
pQT8Rrm

I’m afraid that is way too cryptic for me. I’ve now been on a German Building institute site, a UK builders merchant and an image-hosting site that didn’t recognise the suffix. A wee bit clearer info would help!

martinthebandit

You could buy polystyrene coving and trim it to fit with a sharp knife, if you really, really want coving that is.

Le_Kirk

Your links made live: -
https://ibb.co/xKkPFC7
https://ibb.co/pQT8Rrm

Doozergirl

You don't cove that. That room clearly wasn't built to be coved!

ed110220

If it doesn't make the final ceiling too low, which it might not looking at the position of the window, you could lower the ceiling to eliminate that annoying slope. Probably a bit late now you've had it skimmed, but I'd want to get rid of it if I could.

bris

A decent joiner would get the angles right. It can be coved but I wouldn't personally

Battersea174

Apodemus wrote: »

I’m afraid that is way too cryptic for me. I’ve now been on a German Building institute site, a UK builders merchant and an image-hosting site that didn’t recognise the suffix. A wee bit clearer info would help!

Sorry! I was struggling to work out how to link to hyperlinks when the forum wouldn't let me so borrowed wording from elsewhere in the forum, but it was quite early in the morning so probably didn't word it as clearly as i could.

Battersea174

Thanks for all the quick replies - the consensus seems to not get it coved. It's not me personally that wants it; I've got a very persuasive dad in the trade who's helping with the work and thinks it will look better. But I was sure of how commonplace this is and couldn't find any photos of what a finished result would like. Thanks again, one less job to do!

FreeBear

Agree with other posters - Coving wouldn't look right in that room. Way too small, and most off the shelf profiles would look totally out of proportion. Anything larger than say 25mm would look wrong.


If you really wanted a small profile, make it in situ using a fibre reinforced plaster. This video demonstrates how to do it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjuhDyCbarA