Quote for sorting out artex ceiling?

Grenage

Yup, I'd skim it. It's hard to judge from that picture, but it doesn't look that deep.

Furts

The photo is not great to identify the Artex pattern - which probably sounds anoracky. I like the pattern, and fashion will go back to Artex - fashion goes full circle.

Regardless, you have coving so do not expect a brilliant detail at the edges of the room. For a super job you need new coving , with all the work that entails, or a first rate plasterer and a first rate decorator should mask the issues.

Dan-Dan

Looks fine to me , i would personally leave as it is, especially with the coving already being in situ

Furts

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Looks fine to me , i would personally leave as it is, especially with the coving already being in situ

I too think it looks fine, indeed great from what the photo shows. But that will not make you or I fashion and trend icons!

southcoastrgi

Vinyl silk paint on the ceiling isn't gonna do you any favours

DRP

I couldn't live with that ceiling - it would have to go

ps. Furts - I am by no means a fashion or trend icon

EmmyLou30

We had all our 1992 artex ceilings skimmed with the coving staying intact. The plasterer knocked all the drippy shaped nobbles off first, primed it with some sealer stuff, then skimmed over them. There was just enough lip left around the room where the ceiling meets the coving for it not to look obvious it had been skimmed. Obviously the skim layer would need to be thin for this to be achieved so it may depend how thick the artex is. We were warned that due to the thin skim in the larger rooms such as the lounge and kitchen there may be hairline cracks due to movement in the floors above but so far only 2 nail pops (after the whacker plate was used outside for the new drive), and a small 2 foot long hairline crack in the kitchen (also after the whacker plate!).