Our living room ceiling has some fairly ugly artex on it. Rather than scrape it off, I think I want to just replace it. I'm trying to decide whether to pull the old ones down, or to put new boards over them. The artex is fairly lumpy, so if I was going to put boards over the old ones, I think I'd have to scrape away some tracks (I already have some X-Tex, which works as well as can be expected) to put noggings in. So, right now, I'm slightly inclined to pulling it all down, however messy it might be. Is it possible to pull the old nails out, or does this just make the boards crumble away anyway? I want to create as little dust as possible. The artex has been there since about the late 80's, I'd guess (the house was built in '86), so it's not impossible that there's asbestos in it.
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8 years ago