What's the best and quickest way to remove Artex plastering from walls?
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Artex is a water-based covering, usually used to decorate ceilings, and generally brought to a textured finish with the use of a brush or roller. Some older artex may contain asbestos and it is extremely unwise to sand down or scrape without seeking the advice of an asbestos specialist. Contact your local council for help with this.
Artex can be “steamed” off using a wallpaper steamer. This is again very messy and also very slow. It cannot be done at speed or with the steam plate left in one area too long…if it is, there is a possibility of damaging the ceiling or wall and the artex just returns to liquid form.
This will enable you to soak and strip without damaging either yourself or the surface you are working on.
Best not to. Scrap off or sand down as much as you can then re plaster over the top.
Depends how old it is. Some nasty things in old artex, which you don't want to mess with.
Usually plastering over it is the best way to do it unless you know exactly when the Artex was put up. Artex from the 70's could contain asbestos so it's advised that you don't try to sand down the Artex at all.
The best and quickest way is to use a steam stripper(wall paper) and scrape it off.
the easiest way is to skim over the top of it with yet more plaster. Removing it is not a good idea, it is a very very messy job and not one to be undertaken lightly
Plaster/skim over it.
There is no need to remove it - if it is very heavily textured, chip off the biggest peaks and hire a plasterer. He will paint on a bonding material, let it dry for about an hour and then skim over it. If it is only lightly textured, there is no need to chip any off.
We've recently had our walls and ceilings done and they look great - well worth the trouble and expense.
Coat of bonding plaster over the artex to level it out then a skim coat of plaster to provide a flat level plastered ceiling, you should not chip of old artex as a lot of artex contains asbestos which is nasty.
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