Coving down then ceiling skim?

[PaDE]

We need some more ceilings skimmed.

Do people generally take their coving down first?

I'm thinking of how clean the joining line between the coving and ceiling would be.

Cheers

 

[a1ex2001]

if you take the coving down it will almost certainly make a mess of the walls meaning even more plastering to do, I'm assuming it is modern stuff and nothing decorative/period if it is then don't touch it! Personally I'd ask the plasterer!

 

[randal]

We had a quick skim of the ceilings done with the coving in place. It looks OK, better than I was expecting.

I assume you've got artex swirls or something up on the ceiling at the moment? If so they'll knock all that back with a blade/scraper and then skim on top tapering in to meet the coving edge. You'll lose a bit of the edge height, but done properly it'll look decent.

Once it's dry, misted and given a couple of coats of emulsion you'll probably never be able to tell.

 

[Skiddley]

Leave coving, and use a decent plasterer. Should be able to feather to coving, and leave a clean finish.