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Plaster cornice, coving, ceiling roses and panel mouldings, fitted new, matched to what you have or repaired where it is damaged.
Zavoré is based in Birmingham, and our artisans travel to fit, match and restore cornice and coving in Edinburgh. This is a city of tall rooms, and the plaster where wall meets ceiling does a lot to set the tone. Send photos of your ceiling and the room sizes, and we will tell you honestly what it needs.
The Georgian terraces and squares of the New Town were fitted with restrained, classical cornice. The tenements and villas that came later, in Marchmont, Newington and Morningside among others, tend towards deeper mouldings with more ornament, and Edwardian work is usually lighter again. Every house differs, so we study the ceiling you actually have before suggesting anything.
Time and many coats of paint are unkind to plaster. A run of cornice may have cracked, gone missing at a corner, or lost its crispness under decades of paint. We repair the damaged lengths, rebuild what is lost and run new lengths to an existing profile. An extension, a room opened up to its neighbour or a patched ceiling can then carry the same cornice as the rest of the flat, with the new work blended in so the old and the new cannot be told apart.
Polystyrene coving is cheap and quick, yet its soft detail looks wrong in an old room. Plaster keeps a sharp edge, takes paint well and can be mended like any other ceiling, which makes it the right material for period and listed houses. Listed buildings may need consent before work, so the owner should check with the council.
Many cast mouldings are fibrous plaster, poured into a mould and strengthened with hessian scrim, sometimes over timber laths. Other period cornice was run in place by hand. We look at yours before saying which route suits.
Coving generally means a plain curve, and cornice a more detailed moulding with steps and beads, and we fit both. Ceiling roses are sized to the room and its light. Panel mouldings can turn a plain wall into a panelled one, and corbels and columns dress archways, alcoves and fireplaces. A new profile can be drawn for a crisp modern shadow line or a full classical run.
We do not sell ceiling roses or coving at the moment, but we fit those you have bought yourself. Hotels, restaurants and offices in the city centre can have cornice too. Our main plaster cornice and coving page has more.
Start with photos of the ceiling, its corners and the room sizes. Small questions can often be answered from photos alone. We then survey the ceiling for cracks and movement and take the profile of any cornice to be matched.
Edinburgh is a long way from Birmingham, so plasterwork is booked in blocks of days with the team staying on site. Dates are set once the profile and price are agreed. The steps are on the cornice and coving installation page.
We teach what we install, at centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester, and the courses are on training. Mouldings frame all our other work, so see decorative work, and use the sample board if a plaster wall is part of the plan.
A restored ceiling sets off the room below it. Gilding in Edinburgh can pick the cornice out in gold or silver leaf, and a painted wall is covered under murals in Edinburgh. Sculptural plaster in Edinburgh and bas relief in Edinburgh give contrasting form.
Other pages cover lacquered walls in Edinburgh, mosaics in Edinburgh, artificial rock in Edinburgh and travertino in Edinburgh. The decorative finishes specialist in Edinburgh page links them all, and Venetian plastering in Edinburgh is the service for polished lime walls beneath new cornice.
Yes. We take the profile of the cornice in the house and make new lengths to match it, so new and old run on as one.
Yes. Cracked, broken and missing sections can be repaired and rebuilt, and over painted detail cleaned back.
Not at the moment. We fit, restore and match cornice, coving, ceiling roses and panel mouldings, including ones you have bought yourself.
For a period home, yes. Plaster holds finer detail, takes paint properly and can be repaired. Polystyrene is lighter and cheaper, but the difference shows.
The two words are often used for the same thing. Coving usually means a plain curved profile, and cornice a more detailed moulding found in period homes.
Call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos of the ceiling, room sizes and the postcode.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Edinburgh and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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