fixing a plaster cove
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:58 pm
In my dining room POs added a new drywall ceiling. The result of their work altered the "radius" of the smooth wall to ceiling cove that encircles the room. Now, the cove travels up the wall and begins a graceful radius, only to be lopped off by the new, lower drywall ceiling.
I hope to do something to fix this as we redo the dining room. The drywall job isn't very old, and there is nothing but paint over the mud that "smooths" the new wonky cove. I'm considering adding a large poly cove molding; applying a "system" made up of brackets and bent drywall to create a new, smooth, correct cove; ignoring it and moving along (this is the SOs idea—I am far too OCD to even consider it in reality); start over with a highly skilled team of drywall/plaster people and remove the drywall ceiling and reinstall with proper cove treatment; using a crap-ton of plaster, spackle, drywall mud to fill in the wonkiness and smooth it out (I have NO idea how I would do this, but it seems the most appealing at this point); and the previous spackle solution plus a layer of textured (Lincrusta) wall covering to make it look prettier than my skills permit.
Do any of you have any thoughts on this? I love the smoothness of the ceiling-to-wall transition a true cove offers, but am hesitant to move forward without a good solid plan of attack. Also, I am not very comfortable (scared to death) on a ladder (of anything higher than my shoes), so ceiling work really is daunting for me, and therapy is outside of my budget.
THANKS
I hope to do something to fix this as we redo the dining room. The drywall job isn't very old, and there is nothing but paint over the mud that "smooths" the new wonky cove. I'm considering adding a large poly cove molding; applying a "system" made up of brackets and bent drywall to create a new, smooth, correct cove; ignoring it and moving along (this is the SOs idea—I am far too OCD to even consider it in reality); start over with a highly skilled team of drywall/plaster people and remove the drywall ceiling and reinstall with proper cove treatment; using a crap-ton of plaster, spackle, drywall mud to fill in the wonkiness and smooth it out (I have NO idea how I would do this, but it seems the most appealing at this point); and the previous spackle solution plus a layer of textured (Lincrusta) wall covering to make it look prettier than my skills permit.
Do any of you have any thoughts on this? I love the smoothness of the ceiling-to-wall transition a true cove offers, but am hesitant to move forward without a good solid plan of attack. Also, I am not very comfortable (scared to death) on a ladder (of anything higher than my shoes), so ceiling work really is daunting for me, and therapy is outside of my budget.
THANKS