Just started this! Scored along top and bottom edges with a knife, chiselled top and bottom to lose, then used a hammer and it basically fell off as 2 pieces

Thanks for the video. Getting it off is a bloody nightmare 😆

Nice watching 👍 I'm on the way to lowered ceiling in all my house. For first to hide the lovely Artex 😁 For second spotlights For third + more insulation and For fourth more quieting between downsters to upsters rooms 👍

I’m mid-way through redecorating my entire home, which has/had coving in every single room. My wife decided she wanted it all removed, then the walls plastered, then new coving put on. I assumed it would be a simple job but it’s turned out to be one of the biggest ball ache diy jobs I’ve ever done. As others have suggested, make sure you take time to prep, it pays dividends in the end. Stanley blade the top and bottom of the coving, use a sharp tool (I went with a wooden handled scraper which had a metal head) and hammer into the top and bottom all the way around, and for the large part, it will come off in long pieces. Good luck to anyone else undertaking this horrible job.

top tip 🤔 USE top of the range sharpest utility knife first…cut coving at Ceiling and wall…….. then you can get it down in meters rather than centimetres…..👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤪

So pleased to see someone else go through my pain!

I am currently doing it myself. Its dusty slow progress. I had a good run where two foot sections came off but after that its all hard bits and chiseling. I have lots of rooms to do because I am having the artex ceilings skimmed over.

What about using a wallpaper steamer or water spray with a bit of washing up liquid to reduce the dust and help soften the coving adhesive.

Thank you! I have never done this and I need to do this with my husband later today

I used a floor scraper to the underside and top side, being careful not to mark the ceiling & walls. 3m section down within 60 seconds. 👍🙌

I know it's rwo years later BUT, running some sort of dust extraction on any sander makes the job a hel of a lot easier and cleaner ......... but it makes a battery powered sander pretty pointless. These days, i don't run a sander without a vac connected

Thanks for an honesty video on this subject, plus ongoing advice of removal of adhesive and problem solving. Would you re plaster the ceiling a Artech ceiling any video on this?

I would have sacked the coving off and just used jointing tape and compound for the corner. More sanding, but I’m not a fan of coving. But that’s personal choice, the job was sound, good effort mate.

Wet the remaining adhesive and it will just fall off - saves all the sanding and scraping

I am doing this. The issue I have is that once I’ve taken off the coving there is not plaster… I am not putting coving back I want it a clean finish. would you suggest ready mix plaster to fill the gap?

Progress!

If you arnt putting up new coving and dont want to take down old lining paper..You are left with a gap-is it best to fill with polyfila to the paper level? Or is that taking too many shortcuts?

That decides it then. Think i'll leave it up

Sds bent bolster bit

whoa making me seasick with the camera swinging...

Useful video but please KEEP THE CAMERA STILL instead of swinging it around all the time! I could only watch it in bits until I got seasick.

That’s got to be the most long winded, messy and crazy way to remove plaster coving 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️