Broken cornicing- help save my baw sack!!

Oooooh looks nasty.

That hole doesn't look too good either.

Get on you tube and search decorative cornice repair.
Tbh its a specialist job

 

Get some plaster of paris or small bag of casting plaster and sculpt it as it is just a small hole.
To get it done properly you would need to cut out a section of it to get it cast.

 

What area are you?

 

In the dog house.

 

Quite a few firms around who do repairs, they use a latex type substance to make a mould from a non damaged section to make the new piece in plaster.
When they finished, you struggle to find the repair.

http://www.cornicerepairslondon.co.uk/

 

Not sure what I'm taking about but could you not use a mould of the exsisting.

Ain't got a clue how lol.

**** happens

 

As you say, fill with plaster - use a setting type (one you mix with water) and fill t'ole right in and right up. Take it slightly proud and then use shaped formers - anything, the ends of small paint brush handles, kitchen knives, spoons, not forks..., whatevs - to get the shape roughly right.

As it sets - probably after around a half-hour (perhaps less) - press it more firmly into shape; it'll be more stiff and 'plastic'.

After is has fully 'set' (it doesn't have to have dried), use small scrapers/model files/whatevs to work the plaster back down to match. Once dry, use an edge of fine sandpaper to finish off any rough edges. Be prepared to add small amounts of fine-surface filler to fill in any wee dips and holes.

This is perfectly doable. Once emulsioned, you won't notice...

 

Squirt some expanding foam in, then carefully build up/sculpt with easifill

 

The cornice that is there will be about 7 seperate pieces all put together up on the wall/ceiling.

 

Whack some caulk in there and hope she doesn't notice



!

 

I'm sure you could manage to get that back to original with a bit of tlc.

Firstly, stuff the hole with an offcut roughly shaped of plasterboard, to fit tightly and leave plenty to fill over. PVA it in there. When dry or dry-ish, fill as said before with plaster of paris or Artex. Find it better to fill it nearly, let it dry, then top it shape it, let it dry and sand it.

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

No to foam, might end up more damage, if you squirt too much in.

Easifill is perfect for repairs, & a couple of small pieces thin ply,with hole drilled through them & joined together with string & which you can get through the hole.Could even use something like Stixall to help hold ply in place.

Hold ply in place with string while filling,when dry snip off excess string & finish off with filler.

 

I wasn't going to blast the stuff in Kiab just a gentle controlled surgical squirt to stop easifill dripping through

 

Depends how much it expands.

 

Squiiiiiiiiirrrrrrttttt. Nope, still not filled. Squuiiirrrrrrrrrrrtttttt. Nope. Squiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrtttttttt.

Damn, I can't open the loft hatch.

 

Suitable method for more than one environment

 

I'm very gentle on the trigger...stops it expanding too much

 

Years ago I had similar experience, fill a hole with expanding foam, very little expansion, thought it was a dodgy can, so in went another can, still nothing, couldn't understand it, when there was banging on the front door & one very irate neighbour.
Pop next door & there was my foam coming out from a larder, it was full, everything was encased with the foam,after clearing up there was board up air vent which the foam had come through.