Artexed walls ?

sabelu

We several years ago made a mistake and artexed our hall, stairs and landing. Ok its been there 14 years but we have gone off it. Would we be better getting it reskimmed by a plasterer or what ?

cargo

Yes Providing there is enough room to take the extra thickness.
Eg,Around the doors/windows/skirting boards.

windym_2

I would rather move house than tackle this one :eek:

mrbadexample

windym wrote:

I would rather move house than tackle this one :eek:

I'm seriously considering that. Some previous idiot (no offence OP) who lived in my house decided that artex on the kitchen walls was a good thing. Artexers should be shot. All of them. :mad:

Katykat

We had a plasterer go over ours on stairs, also on a ceiling. Then we papered over it, but you could just paint it with emulsion. It was all done in a day.

Katykat

Just read that, we [email="DIDN@T"]DIDN'T[/email] paper the ceiling. Though come to think of it, when I was a nipper ( during the crimean war) all our ceilings were papered to match the walls. My parents must have been bonkers

raeble

My house has got the living room ceiling papered in patterned wallpaper, which is different to the walls. The previous owners were a bit obsessed with patterned wallpaper.

ginger_nuts

I was told by a decorator many moons ago ,if you want to put artex on the walls put lining paper on first . then when you want to remove it pull the lining paper off. This is exactly what I did .

squiggles

If you use a steam stripper the artex will come off.Firstly the emulsion turns into like elasticy type of stuff and can then be pulled off bit by bit.Then take a scraper and make criss crosses(not too deep or you will damage the underneath wall) all over the walls so the steam can penetrate quicker.Just hold the steamer over a patch untill it softens and scrape away.Very time consuming and very messy job so i would cover your carpets good and even tape down the sheets to prevent them moving.

Maximum cost would be £30 for the steamer or a couple of hundred pounds for reskimming a staircase,huge difference in costs,let us know how you get on or what you decide to do.

mellyp

Husband has just read this post and agrees with squiggles above, will save you a lot of money. Although it does smell a bit!

Good luck

dinkylou

Think yourselves lucky.

My dream house (which i now live in) has artexing in every room! (looks like a xmas cake!)

Only the previous owners were too cheap to pay a professional and so did it themselves... with plaster!!!

And I only found this out when I had someone come and give me a quote.

Wish they d used paper underneath.

Ah well.