Thanks, Guys. I'm a firm believer in "experience as the best teacher" as Ben Franklin taught us....so I bow to your experience. Your feedback makes sense (and I'm not that careful - to keep epoxy out of the groove). Mark
: If you are anything like me, the cove and bead will get abused. The edges of
: the cove will get beat up, the bead will get fiberglassed over, and the
: cove will get filled with epoxy.

: With careful work you can leave the cove and bead on. I just don't like being
: that careful.

: Also I like fitting the strips into the cove of previously installed strips
: as I build. You would need to put a cove on both edges of one of the
: strips inorder to make this possible.