Artex job in Sandhurst, Berkshire - nice easy one

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Alright chaps, got given your link as someone to ask about for a nice simple artexing job.

Need a kitchen ceiling artexing. Currently got a stipple artex ceiling, with several patches where walls/cabinets have come down. Its all long dried and is solid, the ceilings been up years and the patches were filled 6+ months ago.

Needs a scrape clean and artexing in a very discrete broken leather-ish finish - want a nice clean finish that wont stand out. No coving as the rooms got a lot of corners in it, so just the usual inch-ish wide band round the edges.

Its a 2.3m x 4m kitchen, with about 2 square metre extra by the front door, one meter flat, one going up the slope up the stairs.

Also a bit underneath the stairs as its all open.

All in its about 12 sq/m all in, give or take a bit.

Jobs in Sandhurst, kitchen will be emptied but will obviously have units/worktop etc in.

what you reckon ,anyone interested? Drop me an email or PM.

Ta.

Jamie
 
Somebody else looking for a job done for peanuts ::) on the flip side, i've got a ceiling to tex on friday. 45 m2 comb effect. they can't get anybody else so i'm charging £350. KERCHING!!! ;D
 
Bruce Willis said:
spunk in a bag
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no mate. ££££££ in a bag ;D ;D ;D

Steve- it's getting harder to source. A bit hit and miss at B&Q. I also artex over artex i.e change the design, with a bag of spunk called "smooth over." similar properties to artex but it sets in about 2 hours and you can re-artex over it the same day! £19 a bag though!!
 
brewers still do it and tools as well. getting lucrative as well since people have stopped doing it, got a 40m2 insurance job on friday. only swirl though.
 
Bruce Willis said:
do you get much call for it though? artex in general that is
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No, not really. 15 or so years ago it was a license to print money...easy money!! I can go months without any artex work and then this week i've got 2 jobs on back to back! I'd gladly chuck my trowel away if it ever came back into fashion!
 
Pug said:
brewers still do it and tools as well. getting lucrative as well since people have stopped doing it, got a 40m2 insurance job on friday. only swirl though.
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Yep, you can charge a premium as there's very few people around who can do it, let alone do it well!
 
steve cov said:
get a video if you can pug. do you set it out or just do it free hand?
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depends on the pattern and area mate, comb patterns or large areas i'll set pencil marks on the walls, otherwise its by eye.
 
id like to be able to have a go. cant see it though. if you cant get a vid try and get a couple of pics of different stages? looked on youtube but i can only find some mad welsh dude!
 
i know it sounds weird but the thing to remember is that there's no such thing as a random pattern, even broken leather has a method
 
Done loads in the past.
But last few years I've done loads on the insurance work a lot of people have the option to have it flat aswell but most of em want it re textured :eek:

It's a piece of piss steve ;)
I'll video the next one I do for ya......you watch I won't do one for ages now ;D
 
Casper said:
Bruce Willis said:
spunk in a bag
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no mate. ££££££ in a bag ;D ;D ;D

Steve- it's getting harder to source. A bit hit and miss at B&Q. I also artex over artex i.e change the design, with a bag of spunk called "smooth over." similar properties to artex but it sets in about 2 hours and you can re-artex over it the same day! £19 a bag though!!
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use finish mate next time save you a wedge!
 
I've done one in the last 3years, used to do loads though when it was in fashion , i am actually going back to those same jobs and overskimmin em or boarding and skimmin :D
 
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