Coverign up artex

[Martin]

How can I cover up artex should I just skim over it with finishing plaster or will I need to prepare it in some way like scoring it for a key?

TIA Martin.

[Gogs]

I used a garden hoe to get most of it off, one room of stipple and one room with daggers hanging off it!

Stuck after that I paid a pro to skim over, think he used PVA and finshing plaster

[daddyfreddy]

Just PVA it and skim it over.

Earlier artex can contain asbestos as well. I'm not alarmist about asbestos but it isn't worth the aggro anyway.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Skim over it using "MultiFinish Plaster", is it painted matt or silk? if matt use PVA, if silk no need for PVA.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Martin]

Painted silk, it's a friends wall and he had previously tried skimming with MultiFinish and the whole lot came off in big sheets leaving the artex as if it were untouched.

Martin.

[Martin]

When did artex stop containing asbestos ?

Martin

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Really, I wonder why my kitchen ceiling plaster has not come down?

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Martin]

I've also plastered over an artex ceiling and its still up there so there is something odd about this wall. I wonder if it could be the original paint the artex was painted with as the only difference in the re exposed artex was its colour.

Martin.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Did he degrease/wash it?

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Martin]

A very good question I have to ask. Thanks

Martin.

[Lobster]

How do you go about doing that on a revoltingly greasy textured or Artex kitchen ceiling? Interested as I'm going to have to tackle it myself in the not-too-distant-future...

David

[daddyfreddy]

Early 70s, according to what I've read.

[MJ]

Put new boards over the top and plaster them.

MJ

[Lobster]

Well, yes, that's what I've been considering: but His Grace reckons it's possible to degrease the surface instead which obviously would be way less work.

David

[Funfly3]

I have an extension 1/2 the size of the new kitchen, I washed the ceiling with sugar soap, scraped the worsts of the dangly bits off, boarded the new half, coated the lot with PVA, plaster skimmed the lot and re-artex and it shows no signs of coming down 4 years on and you could stick clothes to the grease near the cooker Kevin

[<me9]

Early 80s