JimmyRB5PRO

have bought a new house and in the lounge and dining room its got artex ceilings !!!

what's the best way to get rid of them - can you power sand them off - do you have to re plaster or skim them ??????

idea's pls .......

watto52

tbh if it was me i just skim it. imagine the time and mess if you sanded it.

comic cuts

Be careful.......my kitchen ceiling needed removing by a specialist as the artex contained asbestos. You need to know when it was originally done and then take advice.

CC

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

There are products now available that are basically plaster and skim - so that looks to be the best bet

richiewong

Completely knocked down, new plaster board and skim for us.

The bloody dust is a nightmare

Clazza

I got our lounge ceiling and hallway skimmed and it looks great no more nasty artex and hardly any mess

RB5320

I have an old house with artex on a couple of ceilings, very likely cotaining asbestos. In one room I have replastered - layer of bonding first and then skim over the top. It was a bit of a hassle covering the artex with the bonding so in the next one I will be plasterboarding over the artex and then reskim.
There are artex removers available - you apply them and then scrape off. You could get lucky and end up with a smooth ceiling without the need to reskim, but unlikely.
One thing to bear in mind with bonding and reskim is the extra weight - if your ceiling is old lath and plaster you could have problems. In this case plasterboard screwed to the joists and reskimmed would be the way to go.

Steve

Moonloops

You need to watch more TV:-

http://www.polycell.co.uk/webapp/wcs...ew/Jsp/New.jsp

messiah

If you're short on height then rip it out and start again.

If you've plenty of height in the room then skim over it.

Sanding it down is dont even bother, unless you want to pay someone to do it for you and let them go

I was with a "Posh" client and her builder in an old farmhouse she was buying and the whole ground floor had artex ceilings. She asked him if he could sand it down as she wanted as high ceilings as possible - she got a 2 word answer if you catch my drift...

RON

I have literally today had a ceilling plastered for a mate of mine, we didn't bother doing anything to the artex, we just plasterboarded over it and then skimmed it!!

GCollier

The house we moved to last year had artex ceilings throughout, and no way could I live with it. We got a plasterer in who went over the ceilings first with a scraper to scrape the artex down a bit, then a coat of some PVA sealant and finally a reskim with plaster.

Gary.

jukebox

the last tlme we had to remove artex we got a steam stripper on it and it worked fine .