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Hey all,
We had two rooms coved 5 months ago. Today, a piece of coving along one wall came down. I noticed a large crack had developed so I poke it a little bit to see if it had some play. Lo and behold 5 minutes later it came down. There are cracks developing elsewhere in the same room. The other room so far doesn't show any cracking.
Now, both rooms had just been plastered. The difference is that the failed room had been fully emulsioned when the coving went up. The good room had only had a mist coat. The coving guy (old and experienced) knew exactly what the situation was and was confident all would be well.
You can see in the photo that there is next to nothing of the adhesive left on the wall and ceiling. The bond has completely failed in my eyes.
Tomorrow he is coming round to take a look at it and he says he'll sort it out. I need to decide my position on what we should do. We have tonight moved out son out of that room as we don't want more coming off on him in the night. I am mindful to have the whole room done again, despite the agony of repainting the new coving and walls.The guy hinted that screws may be needed. That might help, but I really feel like thats a secondary to the adhesive actually bonding, which it clearly hasn't. What should we/he have done differently?
We had two rooms coved 5 months ago. Today, a piece of coving along one wall came down. I noticed a large crack had developed so I poke it a little bit to see if it had some play. Lo and behold 5 minutes later it came down. There are cracks developing elsewhere in the same room. The other room so far doesn't show any cracking.
Now, both rooms had just been plastered. The difference is that the failed room had been fully emulsioned when the coving went up. The good room had only had a mist coat. The coving guy (old and experienced) knew exactly what the situation was and was confident all would be well.
You can see in the photo that there is next to nothing of the adhesive left on the wall and ceiling. The bond has completely failed in my eyes.
Tomorrow he is coming round to take a look at it and he says he'll sort it out. I need to decide my position on what we should do. We have tonight moved out son out of that room as we don't want more coming off on him in the night. I am mindful to have the whole room done again, despite the agony of repainting the new coving and walls.The guy hinted that screws may be needed. That might help, but I really feel like thats a secondary to the adhesive actually bonding, which it clearly hasn't. What should we/he have done differently?