rounded corner with plaster help

[teahead]

I'm redoing my 100 year house in philly and I ran into a delemma. I chipped away the plaster at the bottom of the 1st floor stair wall where it meets the hallway. I was just planning on replastering alittle, but the more I chipped out the harder it looked to repair.

The corners are my problem, they're rounded and I cant figure out how to plaster them. Should I just buy metal or plastic corner bead and flatten out the round edge? I'm not too concerned about the roundness, but if I can redo the corner in reasonable amount of time at the lest expense possible I'd like to keep it.

Is it possible to plaster over wood? Or should I bring the plaster level with the edge then joint compound the rounded section?

HELP!




Jamie

[HayZee518]

what you'll find is the corner is really a piece of quarter round wood moulding painted white or whatever the wall color is. You can leave the corner there and make a square corner using paper tape or pre manufactured paper n plastic corner bead. OR use a metal corner bead and tack it in place. Then use mud in layers to build up a thickness and sand smooth.

[teahead]

First of thanks for the quick reply, now my only concern about the corner bead being tacked in that it wont have anything to sink into for a good hold. All the plaster around is pretty thick and there isnt a solid wood surface to nail in to.


Now would this work:

Do my plaster until its even with the quater round then coat the rounded edge with joint compound, thus allowing me to sand smooth? Or should I just try the corner bead?

[HayZee518]

They make a manufactured corner that is made of paper and plastic. It is preformed into a 90 degree and uses a paper similar to regular taping paper. What you do is either glue it in place with a high tack adhesive or a layer of mud and embed the corner into the mud. Then you finish the corner after the intial coat dries.

[teahead]

I'll definatley check it out. Thanks.