Any tips for putting up coving?

[Huge]

It's harder to get the joins right, but apart from that you *really* can't tell. We have both in our house and I have trouble recalling which is which.

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

I have tried it and found it very difficult to make as good as the plaster version. Perhaps it's just me, but I would be interested to read about how you manage.

[R Taylor]

cut it right, stick it up, job done

RT

[mike]

Have you looked at the polyurethane coving that Wickes sell? Much lighter and easier to fit using solvent-free no-nails - cuts nicley with a hand or mitre saw and the joins can be finished with no nails too.

It's not paper covered like the polystyrene stuff that someone mentioned but once painted is indistinguishable from the plaster version.

Not a case of spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar as it actually works out marginally more expensive per metre.

It does flex a bit so will follow the ceiling to some extent but then if you stick rigid plaster coving to a badly undulating ceiling, you're going to end up with potentially unsightly looking filling anyway.

HTH.