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The Preparation on your wall and ceiling surfaces
where the coving edges will touch is generally straight forward.
You should remove any wallpaper or
backing paper from the area and brush away any loose or dust
particles.
Then draw some guide lines along the walls
and ceiling. 67mm if you are fitting 100mm
girth coving and 83mm for 127mm girth coving.
And finally if you have painted or
plastered areas which will come in contact
with the coving edges
they should be scratched to help provide a key to the
adhesive.
 Before
we start to cut the coving lets just have a quick look at the angles
of your coving cuts.
The image to the left shows two pieces of coving. The top one has
left and right internal mitre cuts and the bottom one has left and
right external mitre cuts. The bottom edges of each piece are the
edges which are stuck to the wall. So internal go inwards and
external outwards.
 Ok lets have
a look at how to cut the coving.
You ideally want a mitre block and a fine tooth saw. The mitre block
has the angles already set. If you don't have a mitre block then you
should find paper templates in with the instructions in your pack of
coving.
On the back of the coving it is generally marked which is the
ceiling edge and which is the wall edge.
When cutting using a mitre block you put the ceiling edge down into
the block with have the front of the coving facing you and you cut
into the curve. Then gently sandpaper the edges of the cut to remove
any rough edges.
 The best way to
join two pieces of coving together is not just by butting two
straight edges but by cutting an external mitre on the left hand
piece and an internal mitre on the right hand piece and slide them
together. They will fit together nicely. This is a better way to
disguise the coving join than just by butting the edges together.
Right we have now prepared our wall and ceiling areas and we are
familiar with cutting mitres and joining the coving. Lets start to
put our new coving skills together and move on to the next section
and start fitting coving to the
room
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