Artex Ceiling

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The HSE website has guidance for drilling through asbestos artex. It's also worth researching how much asbestos fibres are deemed safe when professional removal is carried out compared to the HSE tests on fibre release from DIY projects involving artex.

Even if you get it tested, a negative result could come back from one bit despite the fact there is asbestos in the mix, depending on how well mixed it was by the original plasterer. Not always easy to get multiple samples until you actually own the place.

Drawingaline

All our ceilings are artex. And our hall walls. We have had it all skimmed except the front room, and only because he plasterer needed the room totally clear and we have no where else the settee can go.

As above, he just scraped it and skimmed over it. The only hard bit were the hall walls as it was thicker, and it does show in a couple of places. We paid maybe 2k, but that was for basically the entire house of walls and ceilings. We had it done over a two year period, a room at a time.

Never even occurred to me it could contain asbestos?!

Drawingaline

We paid around £450-550 for an average sized bedroom, took two days. Hth

FreeBear

Cookieie wrote: »

Depending on when the building was built, you should get the artex checked for asbestos firstly, just incase!

It is irrelevant when the house was built. What would help is knowing how long ago the ceilings were coated with artex. From the mid 1980s, asbestos was slowly phased out in Artex and similar products and finally banned in 1999.

Overboarding may not be practical unless the location of the ceiling joists can be ascertained. Skimming straight over the artex is a common solution to the problem as long as the stuff is well bonded to the underlying ceiling.

Trixsie1989

studentguy wrote: »

It is, but don't you want to know for peace of mind? What if you need to drill into it one day? We've got artex in the house we're buying, i'm 99.9% sure it's not asbestos, but I'm very tempted to get a survey just so I know, especially because I want to install wifi access points in the ceiling eventually.

I agree with this, currently in process of buying a house that has artex in kitchen and will be getting a full house asbestos survey just so we know what we are dealing with

SavvySaver24

AFF8879 wrote: »

FYI there is a DIY forum in which this post would be better placed for advice

Could you send me a link to it? I cant find it anywhere?