dvid

Just a quickie, how much can I expect to pay to get a plasterer to skin over an artex ceiling? Ceiling is 10ftx8ft

I know I could call around but internet is easier at work and for all they know I am typing an email!

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

Graceland

Good luck, Artex is supposed to be a right cunt to plaster over

dvid

Yeah I have heard a couple of things, the father in law is a decorator (not plasterer sadly) and he was under the impressions that artex wasn't too much of an arse to plaster over, but a right ballbag to remove, plus we would be left with bumby ceilings after that

Graceland

One of my colleagues is a plasterer by trade, and he refuses to plaster over artex due to it being a cunt of a job - his own words

GARETH T

rip it down,,, bang some nice new plasterboard up and the plasterer will love it

dvid

Hmm fair enough, maybe that is the way to go then!

Fudgey

iTrader: (4)

depend who you know!

i just paid £60 for the wifes freinds husband () to plaster over our artex

hes a builder not a platers and didnt do an amazing job, but its good enough

also had the artex int he living room plastered over too.

basically i had to get all the loose bits off and that was it. no harder to do that normal really imo

dvid

Dan@FastFord

Now that's more like it! Any more opinions anyone? I had heard about £150 a ceiling

DROPTOP

if you scrape it off wear dust masks ! . just overboard it and skim less mess. find the joists first though or you'll more than likely hit a pipe

rst deany

hi mate im a plaster about 80 pound just give it a good scrape back first then a strong coat of uni bond and then it will stick properly ..

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

As above i was told its only worth overboarding if your not gonna scrape it off underneath first!!! otherwise scrape it off and seal it off then get it skimmed again!! Obviously if its not flat after then it could be a prob.....

I was quoted £400 too do our lounge (bout 23ftX ermmm about i dunno ) and that was too overboard it, skim it and do the coveing which is pretty good but cant afford it at mo, just spend about 1k geting the electrics and boiler sorted So gonna scrape off whats there and go from there!! been told using a steamer helps but only for a few seconds at a time or it'll blow the board underneath

He could have just skimmed it as it was but said there was no way of gaurenteeing coverage due to how thick the pattern is!!!

Nice thing is the whole house is the same

Moonstone Steve.

iTrader: (2)

Had a few done myself by top plasterers and dont pay no more than £150, thats wot i payed for a top class job to plaster over artex and put coving around and that included materials.

Steve.

Lee Reynolds

no more than 100 quid of its not big stipple artex....may take 3 coats see Takes longer to go off as its sealed with emulsion, then theres the unibond...so normally it wouldnt take so long but it saps time due to this..

DROPTOP

you can get this polycell smooth over shit thats designed for covering artex , how good it is i dont know . i always bond and skim or overboard and skim.

DROPTOP

and price ... by the time hes come out sorted it and cleared up it'll be 3/4 of a day and he'll charge for a full day (obviously) which will be 130 atleast id have thought , then 10 for his finish and unibond

dvid

So overall, am I better stripping it and reboarding it (not something I can do in terms of re-boarding) or just getting it plastered over?

which is better in terms of time and cost?

rand

At the end of the day its all cost relative to location, as said before no more than £150 to skim over the lot

swerv

i had every ceiling in the house done and cost me £10 M2, thats pretty much average i think.

mine was also going over shitty artex, it was swirly and everything

dvid

I am liking £10!!!!