Repaired roof leak - how do I now make Ceiling look nice

beachbeth

We have a flat roof over our kitchen and it was recently leaking tiny amounts every time it rained. We have had the roof repaired but how do we now make the ceiling look nice again? Im sorry to swear but the ceiling has artex on it!!! There is a foot long crack and a bit of a yellow stain where the water came through. Shall I just go and get some artex and go over it? If so, what is the easiest stuff to put on? (I am a five foot tall woman and, as my husband has a load of DIY stuff to do at the weekend I'd like to do this myself.)

We are putting our house on the market next week so need it doing quickly.

tanith

I can't see why you would need to artex again.. if it were me I would clean and fill the crack with a fine filler then repaint the crack and stained part of the ceiling then I'd paint the whole ceiling over just to make it look even and not as if you had just patch repaired bits.... I know its a pain but if it looks as though you have done a repair the people coming to view might just think you had done a coverup job and not had the roof properly repaired... though I suppose you could always have the receipt handy just to show them... :T

beachbeth

Trouble is, where the crack is the artex bulges slightly so that is why I thought a thick application of artex might do the trick. Or should I peel it off where the bulge is?

tanith

ok I see what you mean, trouble is once you start pulling bits of the artex off you don't know whats going to happen , maybe if the rest of the artex looks quite firmly fixed and stable you could just carefully remove the bulge and then as you originally suggested artex that bit or I have in the past just used plaster to repair a small damaged bit of artex and then painted over it... it turned out okish.....