Artex ceiling - good way to cover?

dubwarrior2

We covered our old artex ceiling in our last kiitcen with that "quick skim" stuff and my advice is dont bother cos it f@@@ing rubbish.
The applicator that you have to use is a big flat blade. As you scrape across the ceiling it catches on every peek and still levaes you with a slighly rough ceiling meaning that you now have to options. Skim over again and risk still having a rough ceiling or go over it with a sander. I chose the latter option and was cleaniing up the dust for over a month.
My advice is rip it down and re-board it.
An 8' by 4' sheet of plaster board is about £10ish and nails or screws are cheap too. In my new house I have ripped out three ceilings and four walls and re-boarded them all.
Obviously they will need plastering afterwards, but my plaster charged £100 a day and worked his !!!! off, doing a complete room in a day.
Try and find a platerer who does it part time ie a fireman who does it as a second job.
I know that prices vary throughout the country, but £200 a day is extortionate. My mate who did ours, charged £40 for the bathroom ceiling.

nataliebeckett

We had our full bathroom replastered for £200 last year, it had artex on the ceiling, were in the North so prob a bit cheaper than in the South. The plasterer will know if the ceiling needs to be ripped down most probably not though. We moved our stud wall leaving a big section back to board, he simply put bonding/roughing onto ceiling to fill the pattern and patch on ceiling then skimmed over it. Our bathroom is about 6ft x 9ft and it was a mess! He had to knock out all the loose bits on the walls and skim it as well as the ceiling. It took him a day and as I said £200 for the lot, so the price you were quoted is too much.

lapat

£120 a day labour minimum for a good plasterer and then you have materials on top although these are relativeley cheap....

and i mean a good plasterer is when the finish is a smooth as glass(can be a pain when painting then)