artex

Evening all, We've got a dodgy bedroom ceiling that we've been struggling to make a decision about for a while. It's badly cracked in multiple places and has clear sagging in others. We had a very similar issue in our other bedroom but were able to rip that one down and replace with...

Hello, I moved in to my new home mid August and as we were getting it painted the decorator noticed that the skim on one kitchen wall was lifting off. So a lot of it cracked and fell away from tapping etc. This wall has layers on layers of plaster etc. There was historic damp from a leak in the...

Is it normal to have these spots a week after skimming over artex? How long you reckon till it dries fully? Also some spots are slightly orange in colour. Scraped it, pva then skimmed.

Hi Everyone, hope this is posted in the right section, please could someone advise/move if it isn’t. Had my whole house professionally skimmed/plastered including artex ceilings and unfortunetly some haven’t come out great. Had a decorator put a mist coat on and he’s slated the finish saying...

Stippled a ceiling which is the first one I done in years. Could be my last and amazingly this property I textured my first ceiling 35 years ago when I was 15. Just no call for it these days and the cost of a bag is shocking vs what I used to pay. Anyone still at this trade?

Looks to me it's disconnected? Everywhere around me has no stock. Ie trade centre and B&Q. Anyone hear anything about this? Guess I'll have to switch to some decent Pva instead when I'm doing repairs but no idea what to use if I artex a ceiling. Water based undercoat I guess,as that should work...