Artex ceiling - good way to cover?

owls

50 quid?

If i was undertaking this job, after id covered my costs of materials,fuel,liability insurance[which cowboys frequently dont have] etc id be working for about 6 quid an hour, so why after completing a 3 and a half year plastering apprenticeship and having the hastle of runing my own plastering business, why would i work for less than a shelf -stacker at tesco's?

120 mark if your on the job 150-200 if your not.A good job, for a reasonable price thats all you can ask for. people think tradesman make a fortune and that often is along way from the truth in most cases. I dont think some people live in the real world at times.

nelly_2

shammyjack wrote:

Your builders are ripping you off !

Do not plaster over, rip down the ceiling and start from scratch .

A good plasterer should take no more than 2 hours working time to rip down the ceiling , re-board and skim . If they are doing other work any more than £50 is a total rip off !

shammy

Unfortunately pretty much every part of this advice is wrong.

1st of all what is the point of ripping it down? Its just adding expense, mess, time, and quite often affect the top of the walls too.

2 hours to do all that? funny but a mix of plaster takes 2 and a half to 3 hours to go off! thats with out pulling the ceiling down and reboarding it.

If the op can get this done for £50 I will personally pay for it myself.

ftbworried

owls wrote:

If i was undertaking this job, after id covered my costs of materials,fuel,liability insurance[which cowboys frequently dont have] etc id be working for about 6 quid an hour, so why after completing a 3 and a half year plastering apprenticeship and having the hastle of runing my own plastering business, why would i work for less than a shelf -stacker at tesco's?

I dont think some people live in the real world at times.

I have completed 6 years of training at the cost of £15,000 and now am faced with short term contracts at little over £6 an hour anyway. This IS the real world!

Poppy9

I was gonna say give Nelly a call.

We had an old house with lathe and plaster ceilings and we took them all down and plaster boarded them ourselves. The ceilings were all cracked and would have come down if we had papered them over. We were young and enthusastic (and some one lent us some tressles) so we did ourselves. A very messy and tiring job (on the arms and neck). We then paid someone to plaster the ceilings and if I remember rightly paid about £80 per room. This was a good rate at the time (1986) and chap did an excellent job and sold us a Glowworm CH boiler brand new for £50:D ).

I think £200 sounds ok for gettng rid of such an awful effect. It will add value to your property when/if you sell.

poppyolivia

Anyone got any ideas what to do if you can actually see the ceiling tape through you artex and some tape is coming away? I take it that it means the artex is very thin??? We have most of the house like this

nelly_2

poppyolivia wrote:

Anyone got any ideas what to do if you can actually see the ceiling tape through you artex and some tape is coming away? I take it that it means the artex is very thin??? We have most of the house like this

A reskim is probably the only way to sort it out @ probably £100/150 per ceilling

tracy1_2

have you thought about pvc tongue and groove - never needs painting and maintenance - other than a wipe down every year or ten years - we put it up in ours then coving over the top(round the edges) - looks great and at a fraction of the cost of plasterers and no blimmin mess!

poppyolivia

Thanks nelly thought it would be the only thing so think i might have to get a couple of rooms done at a time!

navig8r

Are not the fumes from this type of cladding toxic in the case of fire or have things changed in recent years ??

Dave

tracy1_2

navig8r wrote:

Are not the fumes from this type of cladding toxic in the case of fire or have things changed in recent years ??

Dave

you can buy it in all diy stores this week - so i'm sure its not deemed unsafe.
but who knows - you can buy cigarettes this week!
but i wouldn't be planning to stand around inhaling the tongue and groove toxic fumes!!;)