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Painting Coving, moulding and ceiling lines.

• When the ceiling and coving are to be the same colour, give the coving a coat first, coming out about two inches onto the ceiling.
• Then apply two coats, or as many as may be required, to the ceiling, using a roller if available, allowing time to dry between coats.
• Finally apply the second coat to the coving.
• Untreated Gibroc coving may require at least one extra coat. Gibroc coving is made from plaster enclosed in a heavy paper skin. This paper is usually gray in color so it may need an extra coat of paint if you are decorating in a pale colour.
• Plaster-of-Paris is best given a thin coat to counteract the porosity before applying the regular coatings.
• Intricate coving may require specialist brushes or even spray equipment depending on how complicated it is.

Painters may often be asked to affix coving as part of their contract and persons doing their own decorating might want to try it.
For most plain coving it is not a difficult job. If coving is bought in a pack it will have the basic instructions and usually a paper template to use when cutting angles.
Cutting the external and internal angle of the coving is the most difficult part of the job. It would probably be in your best interest to purchase a cutting box specially designed for coving.