Polystyrene coving

Question

I have bought some Lightweight polystyrene coving to finish my living room off but I am having problems when it comes to mitering the Internal corners. I have already wasted one length of Coving and don't want to attempt to try again. I have four Internal corners in my living room. Can someone give me a rough Idea of how much it will cost for someone to Mitre the corners for me only? I don't have a problem Installing the rest of it and only need the corners done.

Osman · Accepted Answer

A mitre box will help you to a certain degree (no pun intended) but you have you be careful not to knock this type of coving around as it is very easy to indent and damage.

I prefer to use the gypsum type.

Adam · Answer

I’d advise getting a coving box from a diy store or even have a look at some YouTube videos

Stuart · Answer

Hello Maria,
This would be a relatively standard job for a capable tradesman with the right electrical mitre circular saw or a manual mitre saw.
Most will charge a fixed price to measure the lengths of cove to the room and mitre all four corners in for you (eight cuts). I would say off the top of my head £60-£120 depending on how close you are to them. 

You can use MyJobQuote with a pricing of 'Don't know' to receive quotes for your mitre cove job local to you.

I hope this helps.

Stuart SKF

Thomas · Answer

You can purchased ready mitred coving internal and external corners from any good DIY centre or ask where you brought the original coving from.

Stephen · Answer

You could also buy corner joints so you wouldn’t need to try mitre them as walls might not be even

Ian · Answer

You can buy a coving Mitre tool for about £5 from somewhere like Wickes to do this. It should have instructions on how to use it to get the internal corners you need.

Albie · Answer

due to a callout to your address including fuel costs etc it will work out about £60

Gary · Answer

Probably looking st £100 labour for someone to finish the rest for you.

Paul · Answer

Wouldn’t be more than 20-30 pounds to have this done for you it’s a tricky job if u haven’t done it before as you already know. Hope this helps you

Radek · Answer

I charge £20 for all 4 cuts (local job up to 5miles, above that I'll charge extra money for petrol and travel time)

Polystyrene coving

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