Cornice Connect

Building Materials - Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Cornice Connect has patented a revolutionary aesthetic trim that can easily be installed by a non-skilled worker to join two cornice pieces, concealing the unfinished cornice ends, and enabling cornice movement within the connector piece. Cornice Connect's precision moulded trim system joins two plaster cornice pieces, mitigating the causes of cornice cracking, saving builders and homeowners significant costs associated with rectification of cracks, and providing a solution to help ease the issues associated with the national shortage of skilled plaster tradespeople. Plaster cornice is manufactured in 5.4m lengths. Therefore, in long rooms, such as hallways, garages or loungerooms, where the wall length is longer than 5.4m, cornice pieces need to be joined together. This is currently achieved through skilled plaster setters setting the join with plaster compound. However, plaster cornice is not designed to ‘flex' to accommodate to ‘natural structural building movements' or change in temperature or humidity. As a building settles or if there is movement in a building, there is significant risk that the cornice will ‘crack' at these joins, resulting in unsightly cracks and gaps.In Australia, industry manufacturers' technical guidelines state cornice is to be separated either side of a ceiling control joint or in cornice lengths of over 12m by the way of a saw or knife cut to the cornice to enable controlled movement. This results in an ‘unfinished' appearance. These cuts can vary in separation (generally) between 1-5mm in width. Plaster cornice also needs to be professionally ‘set' where there is a change of direction in the cornice, for example at 90-degree angles. Cornice Connect has also developed connectors that join cornice at internal and external angles – not requiring skilled trades to install them, they enable ‘building movement' within the joiners and mitigate cracking at cornice angle joins.