Artex ceilings !

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by captainuk

Its simple to find the joists, just knock a small hole either side of the joists with a hammer adjacent the walls then find the centre of each joist and string a line along them. Less mess than taking the ceiling down, provided the original is flat.

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Wouldn’t be doing that if asbestos was suspected.

[Poppycat]

We managed to skim over swirly artex in our old house relatively successfully when we replaced the old kitchen florescent lights for spots. The previous house had artex that took the skin off your knuckles if you caught it when changing a light bulb.. we hated it but opted to move rather than re-do as they would have had to either put up a false ceiling reducing the height or chip off and replace (needed an extra bedroom too, so not just an artex issue )

[colin39]

Originally Posted by Fairysparkled

The problem I mentioned is when the artex has not been bonded to the original ceiling. Have had it come down on me a couple of times. I dont know many plasterers that would take the chance. I would always plate it.

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The ceiling had already been up 30/40 years and it was a chance we were willing to take, the plasters were on a day rate, 25 years later no cracks no issues, i suppose that is what happens when a man of 60 working in the building trade all his life knows when to hold em knows when to fold em or take a chance👍

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Blue nose

Even to nail in new plasterboard into it you should do an asbestos test as nailing into it could've dangerous as you're not allowed to disturb it. You should probably test before covering it too so you're not hiding asbestos from future owners.

Personally I'd have it tested to be sure and then skim over.

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HSE advice is now to encapsulate asbestos ( rather than remove ) so HSE would advice to cover it

[Fairysparkled]

Originally Posted by colin39

The ceiling had already been up 30/40 years and it was a chance we were willing to take, the plasters were on a day rate, 25 years later no cracks no issues, i suppose that is what happens when a man of 60 working in the building trade all his life knows when to hold em knows when to fold em or take a chance👍

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Its also a bit like playing Russian roulette. If you keep playing the game, one day that bullet is going through your head.

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by Fairysparkled

Its also a bit like playing Russian roulette. If you keep playing the game, one day that bullet is going through your head.

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Plastering over is fine. In all my years I have never heard of a ceiling coming down that was skimmed over.

But there again maybe the Russians do it differently.

Or there again some Tradesman aren't up to the job.

[madasahat]

knock the high points off polybond it and skim it over no need to re plasterboard

[Sara_toga]

Thank you everyone.

Lots to think about there