Skrim to the ceiling

[seasickstevie]

Built a partition and about to skim up to the ceiling. Ideally one should bridge the corner joint with skrim, but that will mean skimming over the painted ceiling to cover the skrim.

I thought to just adhere the top of the pb to the painted ceiling with Fix-n-fill or similar.

Does that sound sensible?
What would the more experienced do I wonder?

 

[Doggit]

Technically, you're right, but praticality means that unless you're skimming the ceiling as well, then you just scrim the joints. Where there'a risk of a joint opening, then you'd use coving handle it.

 

[roughcaster]

Another way to do this, is to run a length of scrim tape along the top of the wall, keeping the top edge of the tape hard up to the ceiling line. When you skim the wall, the plaster will go through the mesh tape and fill the gap along the ceiling line, and the mesh tape will hold it in. I do it that way all the time when it's a new wall.