Awful 1970s artex- what do people actually do?

[Jukeboxtardis]

Need to work out what to do with a mouldy artex ceiling. Presumably it contains asbestos. Online I'm seeing ways to remove it with gel or steaming but I think in practice what people do is get it skimmed over. It's the stalagtite type and impossible to clean so I'm worried about whether plaster would bond to it

@Jukeboxtardis@EasterFox well we used an established licensed asbestos removal firm who had done a full survey so I assume they knew what they were doing. Ours was attached to plasterboard (or maybe gyprock) so they just took the whole ceiling out.

Anyways good luck with whatever you decide to do. Suggest you contact a professional though

Ours is 69, keeping fingers crossed for you.
If you have a full asbestos survey completed you may find other things too. Like I said, we had tiles and drainpipes. I was also surprised at how little workmen seem to care about asbestos though.
Id ripped up a load of the tiles myself but apparently they were less than 1%. Also the ceilings can contain varying amounts. Good luck

Our plasterer covered it over and worked around it

Just spray it away from yourself. Do no skim over mould. Also where is the mould coming from, you need to fix the source.

The mould is there I assume because the bathroom has no ventilation and we have a lot of showers. We use a dehumidifier and open the window when it's not too cold but we are planning to put a heat exchange fan in as part of the renovation. Hopefully that will prevent more mould forming

Might be difficult if its been painted with vinyl silk though

Get it tested, then if it dies contain asbestos it needs professionally removing. If not, you can steam it off or skim over.

@reesewithoutaspoon this looks good but ours has such bumpy peaks the paper would be full of holes, pretty sure it'd cut right through plastic too and I'm not sure how I'd get lots of layers to stay on the ceiling 🤔 will get it tested first

We have brought a 1970s house. The upstairs toilet has artex ceilings, funnily enough my partner thinks it’s lining paper but I’m not sure. There are cracks round the edges and I’m worried that if it contains asbestos then this could be toxic. Any ideas?

Black mould - kill it with vinegar!

As for the artex ceiling, we had one in our bedroom and it was skimmed over some years ago, have had no problems with it since.

That looks like woodchip to me rather than artex. It was all the rage to put it on ceilings in the 70s and my childhood home had it in every room. It helped hide any imperfections from showing up as it deflects the light/shade.

Another vote for wood chip paper. We have it on virtually every ceiling in our 70’s house. (I love the previous owners for it; both because they didn’t artex and because I think papering a ceiling so well is rather impressive).

The only downside is, if you decide you don’t like it, wood chip paper is hard to remove and you will likely damage the ceiling doing so. When we had our bathroom done, the plasterer skimmed over the wood chip ceiling. I did wonder if that’d adhere ok but one year on and so far so good.