Full Cove Vinyl

Had 1 last week a PVC type vinyl 2m wide x 23 lin metres with 50 metres cove and I would not like to guess how many internal mitres. Toilet blocks and a passsage way about a metre wide. There was nowhere there to unrol the vinyl to even cut off 1 metre. Paterned the lot and took back to warehouse

 

Quite common here, its is required commercially in restrooms, usually 6" cove, As far as methods I will usually use a full pattern, but if we are doing large drops i will usually freehand. But i am very anal about my corners bieng tight as i feel that makes the cove job

 

Used to do a lot in Chciago. Lived up in the Northwoods for a while now and haven't seen as much here. In Chicago, we would butterfly all corners. Looked at some work in NY area many years ago and the predominate way there was to band the base. Looks horrible with the seam on outs and ins right at the corners! Cracked very easy too and I saw a ton of putty being used. We would make corner templates out of hadboard or someting similar so all the outs looked alike. A good flashed job is one of the hardest installs there is but they look great when done right.

 

Agreed! I do it here a couple times a year. I use pattern and free hand method, depending on layout and material.

 

Jim, when i cove rotos i use armstrongs s-200 behind the out side corners and it keeps me from relying on the sealer to keep things together, i have heard of others using hot glue gun, but havnt tried that

 

Definately a lost art. I gave up. I am probably the only guy within a county and a half that even did coving............ with only a call for it once every two or three years, it's hard to feel confident. I just threw in the towel............... materials have changed too much........... never know if they are going to shrink on you between pattern making, cutting, and dropping them in........... not worth the risk or stress for me.

 

OS corners with S-200, blue tape and leave overnight if possible. Serves 8 to 12.