Asbestos in artex

[doug boardley]

would it be better thistle bonding it whitebeam?

 

[doug boardley]

GULP!! when I've skimmed over I've always knocked the spikes of stippled artex:huh2::stupid:

 

[White Room]

If it was a deep pattern you could but pva first, Just got to hope that the guy that put it on in the first place done the right prep. I have had some nightmares with bad work where it bulged once the moisture from the plaster soaked into the artex, Then you have scrape the stuff off which is no advantage

 

[BDS]

Doug was talking to a plastering friend of mine about this yesterday,i`ve got a job doing bathroom and customer wants downlighters or some other new fandagled lights in,so asked friend if he wanted the work doing ceiling said yeah so when i said to him about taking artex of and skiming he told me the same that they used asbestos in the artex i didn`t know that,he said it would be better to just skim over,so learnt something else new

 

[MrSpoon]

if its old artex i nearly always overboard, no guaruntee if it contains asbestos and you never know how well its stuck up there! even if its really stippley you can allways give it 3 coats of plaster tho id tent to use WBA if this is the case

 

[Dan]

Some of the threads in the tiling forum that have had a lot of views are being bumped up into current discussion. Just walk on by if it's not your flavour right now. Perhaps it'll help somebody out one day, and they become members, and then they post a thread, and professional tilers respond, and then you learn something from them...? Maybe?