Polystyrene coving

[Mogweed]

I've looked in the FAQs but can't find an answer so here goes:

What's the best (easiest) way of removing old polystyrene coving?

Cheers,

Mogweed.

[Ian Stirling]

Sprayer-full of acetone?

Flamethrower?

[Mogweed]

Thanks Ian, but we need to keep the ceiling :o)

Mogweed.

[Mike]

Don't know. But a match is the quickest :-)

[timycelyn]

A large flat ended paint scraper honed to a chisel edge run carefully into the glued joint. Will wander off into the coving, but will loosen and remove most, then remaining mess can be scraped off with the same tool.

Cheers

Tim

[Mike]

And you're going to stand where ? :-)

[Homer2911]

Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't persist in trivialising a genuine cry for help - must be very frustrating for the original poster to have to sit through the attempts at humour while he waits for a usable reply

[mrcheerful]

good grief if the op can't work out how to get poly coving off then I reckon he might need breathing reminders too.

mrcheerful

[Andy]

"mrcheerful" - my vote for "most unappropriate username, 2005"

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bread knife. Then sand. Up yours as well.

[Andy Dingley]

Haven't a clue - the coving is easy, it just depends how generously they gooped it into place.

Arm yourself with a fistful of assorted sharp scrapers and go to it. If you're coving on top of the ruins with plaster coving, then you might not need to be particularly neat.

[Mogweed]

Thanks for the replies chaps, both the humourous ones as well as the genuine ones :o)

Regarding mrcheerful's reply, I can assure you I'm good at the breathing thing and even I could work out that a scraper or knife of some sort would be needed. I only asked because, as we all know, polystyrene can crack and break into a gazillion bits that get all over the place and I just wondered if anyone had got a better way.

Once again, thanks to all.

Mogweed.

[Ian Stirling]

Flamethrower's quicker.

[Lurch]

On 4 Feb 2005 15:25:30 -0800, "Homer2911" strung together this:

FFS, hows about you stop whining like a 2 year old and put your dummy back in. Ever heard of humour, sarcasm, no?