Artex

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Woodchip is worse!

Am I the only one who thought the OP was watching the Neverending Story?

Hand holding - we had one room in this house which was artexed on every single wall as well as the ceiling. Just getting over it 3 years later!

Skim! Just skim and pretend it never existed!

At least you can skim straight over Artex.

When we bought our house, it was like a 1980s tribute to Artex and woodchip, with several different patterns often in the same room.

I really, really want to start pulling all the woodchip paper off in our bedroom, but I'm scared I'll be pulling off half the wall behind it too . Awful, awful bloody stuff!

Every wall in our house had it when we first bought it. No more thank god.

Our living room ceiling has he most extraordinary artex - it looks as though the plasterer was trying out very swirl possible, like some sort of student exercise. We have left it - it isn't particularly noticeable unless you are lying on the floor, and we can't be bothered with the upheaval of dealing with it.

We had Artex,woodchip AND polystyrene ceiling tiles

Dogma I can cope with woodchip, though removing it it a pain. But at least it doesn't gather dust like Artex.

Walls shouldn't gather dust. It's wrong.

Do you think it was designed as a subtle a backlash against feminism in the 70s - so there was more dusting for people women to do?

Mishaps it looks as though the plasterer was trying out very swirl possible, like some sort of student exercise

You can't ever get rid of it then. It's probably a valuable period piece.

conkerpods We had Artex,woodchip AND polystyrene ceiling tiles

I raise you all of the above (though celing tiles in spare room only), AND a gorgeous victorian fireplace destroyed badly painted by an incompetent ape an amateur; there's paintbrsh bristles stuck in it and everything.

Actually the fireplace is a higher priority to sort than the artex... although it's a rented property so not going to do too much. On the other hand, I've lived here several years and basiclly treated it as an opportunity to learn/practise DIY...

Oh yes, having to dust the walks with a big fluffy duster... my old house had every wall artexed, apparently done in lieu of rent by a previous occupant. I understand it will come off with a steamer, although I never tried this myself.

My current house has 70's anaglypta everywhere, either falling off or unshiftable

Jesus, I remember our family house in the 90's had it in every room.
Can't house the amount of times I went crashing into a wall as a kid and walked away looking like a pin cushion.

Count, not house

Careful as old artex can have asbestos in it

Almost every ceiling here Plasterer has sorted some but that is a pain too. We managed to fill a skip with the pot menagerie in the garden...all broken even before I joyfully threw them in.