I hate the stuff. I honestly think that every single house I've lived in has had various incarnations of the stuff - swirly like philly cheese, spikey like Christmas cake icing, undulating like - well, I always thought the Artex effect on the bedroom ceiling of my old flat reminded me of intestines.
We have spikey Artex currently (bequeathed by previous owners) and it always looks grubby. Cobwebs get stuck on the points, as do fragments of the feather dusters we use to try and remove them. I had some success with a stiff broom when we were cleaning up to put the house on the market, but it means thousands of fragments of the spikes falling on the brush-ee, an instant hairwash and vacuum (me and the floor), and if you're unlucky, a trip to the doctor to remove the bits from your eye.
Really, it's ghastly stuff. Whatever possessed people, etc.
We're hoping to move into a house that, yet again, has the stuff on all the ceilings. Not a big fan of polystyrene tiles. What else can you do to get rid of it or disguise it? Can it ever be skimmed over by someone with, say, a PhD in Advanced Plastering?
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What on earth can you do with Artex ceilings??
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ReshapeWhileDamp · 20/07/2010 17:26
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