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turns out he was a lousy plasterer after all - the second quy I got in successfully repaired the original cornice, did all the jobs perfectly over 3-4 visits, AND cost almost half the price! Can PM names if anyone needs one in Adelaide. Cheers.

You guys were right - the plasterer has now done a runner! Luckily without money or labour changing hands, just a whole lot of wasted time. Normally I get quite hands on with repairs but in this case I just wanted to throw money at someone to solve the problem for me - didn't think that was...

I think the cornice is the old fashioned plaster and not whatever they use in new houses these days. So it's not just a matter of going to Bunnings, but surely a plasterer would have addressed these problems many times and know where to find something with a similar cross-section. Haven't...

Not quite a saga yet but getting there. Plasterer quoted me for a cornice repair on his own judgement that he could re-use the fallen cornice. I gave the go ahead and added that I'd be happy for him to replace the cornice with a plain one if the original one turned out to be unusable. Now...