Plaster Mouldings - DIY!

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Rubber moulds are one way to do it, though running plaster in situ is a more logical approach in most cases, and is how it was mostly done in the Victorian days of fancy cornicing.

But the idea that anyone could make a business out of it is laughable.

NT

Weren't there garden gnome and statue moulds sold in the 1980s with the same idea?

Owain

Yes. They pour concrete in them now and sell them in the town centre.

Those are saleable though. Hand made plaster cornice, at the sort of steep prices one has to charge for the amount of labour that goes into it, occupies a market size of approximately zero. And rubber casting the cornice wipes out much of the potential market, as the kind of houses it suits routinely have less than flat walls, just one of the reasons running in situ was popular in Vic times.

NT

My brother-out-law used to work for a firm of fibrous plaster suppliers. They did make a business out of it (but each mold was a bespoke item for a specific customer job).

He did DIY his cornices, but not in situ - he molded them on a bench, then lifted them in place after they set.

His bathroom was pretty impressive too - it looked a bit like something from the Alamabra Palace (seconds from a job for an Arab Embassy I think).

I'm not sure what the walls have to do with the potential market, bu

the market is there. My husband and I are producing genuine plaste cornices for $.45 Canadian per foot and enjoy a profit of ten time that. As for the less than flat walls - the plaster mouldings can b fitted in wet.

There are many plaster moulding companies across Canada, the UK and th US. They are in business because they are making money.

We did make a business out of this and we are laughing ... all the wa to the bank!

-- design77