Would artex ceilings put you off buying a house?

roddydogs

Surely the plasterboard has to be plastered anyway? Does it look ok without?

dragonsoup

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

So I think many people do like them, as well as those who find them a faff.

I am cursed with inherited wood burners - two in fact, one in a sitting room and one in the dining room. They look pretty but I'm seriously considering ripping them out and restoring some original period grates for some proper open fires.

McTaggus

roddydogs wrote: »

Surely the plasterboard has to be plastered anyway? Does it look ok without?

But they only have to do a quick surface skim, which is cheaper and easier. If you try to plaster directly over the artex the difficulty and cost will depend on the height of the mountain range you have in your ceiling as otherwise you can't easily get a smooth finish without your skimming blade catching on every darned peak on the way through. Ours, sadly, are akin to Mount Everest….

Davesnave

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

We had the gas fire removed in the living room of our bungalow. It didn't have ANY of the advantages of the woodburner, imho. I'd rather have had a plain flat heater than an artificial log fire. But each to their own.

What as the problem with it?

I've had both, so I can compare too. With both you end up with the fire behind glass, but with one there is no cleaning out, re-setting, going down to the barn to get a barrow load of fuel etc etc.

I know you get a different flame picture every half hour with a real fire, but even with the gas jobbie I could alter the random coals whenever I wanted.

With both one can buy good and bad. I wouldn't say that my present wood burner is a super-duper one, but my gas coal fire was definitely at the expensive end of the market, so maybe that made a difference.

seven-day-weekend

[QUOTE=Davesnave;70526011]What as the problem with it?

I've had both, so I can compare too. With both you end up with the fire behind glass, but with one there is no cleaning out, re-setting, going down to the barn to get a barrow load of fuel etc etc.

I know you get a different flame picture every half hour with a real fire, but even with the gas jobbie I could alter the random coals whenever I wanted.

With both one can buy good and bad. I wouldn't say that my present wood burner is a super-duper one, but my gas coal fire was definitely at the expensive end of the market, so maybe that made a difference.[/QUOTE]
We just hated the artificiality of the log effect gas fire. However, we sold it and the fire surround so made some money out of it

We have a log-effect electric fire in our static caravan, but that was put in from the manufacturer and it is quite efficient and also suits the rest of the decor so we don't mnd that.

Davesnave

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

We just hated the artificiality of the log effect gas fire. However, we sold it and the fire surround so made some money out of it

We have a log-effect electric fire in our static caravan, but that was put in from the manufacturer and it is quite efficient and also suits the rest of the decor so we don't mnd that.

So you're saying it looked tacky, which I can well understand as many were, and still are, but it's important to compare like with like. Ours wasn't out of B&Q.

You do realise that the makers of wood burners are in this market too, so you get a pretty much identical fire and it's just the fuel that's different? Something like this:

I think I'd be hard pressed to tell one of those apart from a multi-fuel burner, without studying it quite closely.

But as you say each to his own.