Artex walls

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Hi I am in the process of buying a 2 bed with lovely drip effect artex walls in all rooms apart from kitchen and bathroom . Any idea on rough cost for getting rid of this? It seems to be the recommendation now is to skim over it? Many thanks!

We have delightful artex everywhere...

I did the hallway by using a wallpaper remover and then scraping the wet artex, was told this was safe as the fibres are wet and therefore arent inhaled.... however it was hard work.

So.we have now done our bedrooms and got them skimmed. The bobbly sticky out bits have to be scraped back first and then it requires alot of plaster but it is doable.

One standard room roughly 3x4m cost me about £600 for the materials and plasterer. It took him 7 bags of plaster to cover as it needed several layers but it does look so much better.

Some plasters wont skim cause of the risks of asbestos but if you can find someone you know then they would probably do it. Otherwise you can pay for a test to check if the artex was made up with asbestos.

We we bought our 2 bed semi 5 years ago, the lounge walls & ceilings (roughly 19ftx13ft) was covered in very thick artex. It cost, if I remember correctly it cost £300 for this one room, inc ceiling to be plastered over, one wall had to have about 3 layers of plaster! Inc all materials (angle beads as well). We had to get the walls going up the stairs and 2 bedrooms plastered as well so all together it was £800.