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The caulk's not so bad, it's the fumes from the paint that my OH is worried about... :)

lol!! Actually I did our room and the spare room in a couple of days shortly after the original post. We have 2 small boys sharing the other room and it's been tricky finding time to caulk and paint the ceilings around their sleep times as well as tying in with weekends/holidays. Nearly done now :D

Just thought I'd update this. I worked out the problem was that the hole that had been made in the salt glaze drains was too close to the bottom of the soil pipe. This meant that the detritus bounced up into the cavity and hit the back wall of it before slowly sliding down back into the pipe...

Thanks for all the tips guys. I've ended up going for the caulk option as it's the cheapest and easiest and it looks fine. At some stage or other we'll probably go for a complete redecorate upstairs at which point we'll probably remove/replace the coving altogether, but it's fine for now :D

That's a really good idea. I'll have a look into costs etc. I know using filler is going to be pretty rough and ready. But then again the rooms are too at the moment. At some stage I'd ideally want to completely remove the coving like you say, but not got the time or cash to do that right...

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Yes the coving has been fixed over the tiles. The tiles were about 1cm maybe 2cm at the very most thick. So now there is a gap of around that sort of thickness which is cut back as far as I can without damaging the coving.

All the rooms in the upstairs of our house had polystyrene ceiling tiles and coving. I've removed the tiles succesfully (and more easily than expected!) and trimmed them as neatly as possible around the edges of the coving. I don't want to remove the coving as I don't want to have to redecorate...

Thanks for the answer. Sadly there's nothing to dig out. The grate doesn't connect up to the drain. The drain has been hacked open, and then the sides of the hole under the grate have been cocreted. The drains on our street seem to be a bit dodgy. The neighbour says his go a couple of times...

Thanks for the replies. Out of interest here are the photos of the current situation. That hole is about 250mm wide at the moment so would have to increase to 300mm to fix as suggested. :(

Hello all - new here. Hope I've found the right forum for this. We have recently moved into a new house (bought). On the patio at the back is a drain which I thought was just for rain water run off. Sadly after finding our drains were blocked I found out it is actually the head of the access...