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Re: any advice onskimming over art tex on the ceil biggest celing so far is probably 30m2 which took 6 hours, I've got 3 more ceilings to do before I tackle the big one, probably be me, my bro & husband, they labour & I do the finish. did the artex ceiling yesterday, went well, took longer...

Re: any advice onskimming over art tex on the ceil sorry my home ceiling is 11m x 5m

Re: any advice onskimming over art tex on the ceil the artex ceiling is only 7' by 7', so i can suck it & see how it works (have been requested to do others but so far have avoided) my house is new & plasterboarded, no major problem apart from the timing - in Winchester hampshire, hubby...

ok large ceiling, so how do you do a big ceiling? my sitting room has an 11m long ceiling & i was going to do in 2 hits, have done one 2/3rd that size in 6 hours - with my bro knocking up, but not sure I could manage the whole room in one hit?? barbi girl :-*

:D - thanks to everyone who has sent advice etc, will post when I'm done, I'm cheered by your support, felt a bit apprehensive, after the treatment I got from some of the trainee plasterers (not the trainers etc) on the course i did, they were generally dismisive of me, one even to my face...

Hi there - been out the loop for a bit, still plastering my house :) , getting better, can now do 6 metre wall in 3 hours & its near perfect, well pleased - ok so I'm not a full time plasterer but I do have a 300m+ new selfbuild house to do on my own, got a weeks training last year & am...

I'm 44 & been plastering since last april, doing my own new build house & other peoples remedial skims & some rendering. Short, fat & female & fighting other hassle than my age! its taken some work to convince my husband to start with that I can do this, but my results seem to speak for...

I learnt to plaster last spring, at trades4you at gatwick, good course, no one thought I'd manage, but I love plastering, its better than being a typist in an office!! my results are getting pretty good, but need to get faster, still takes me 6 hours to do a 5m x 3m ceiling. Mel my hubby & I...