Last week we had to plaster over an artex ceiling….not just an ordinary artex ceiling though.  You can see what I mean when you see the first picture I took.  There are curves and corners all over the ceiling as well as some deep old artex to get over too.

How do you plaster over these types of ceilings you might ask?  Well, all the normal rules still apply but you need a few extra trowels and A LOT MORE PATIENCE! This ceiling took  over three hours to plaster.  To get into the corners, a midget trowel and brick-layers trowel were used.  For external corners I just used my normal 14 inch trowel along with my wet brush. 

I know quite a few plasterers who don’t like plastering these ceilings simply because it can be quite frustrating.  Where you lay plaster on in one direction you often take it off in another but as I said, with some patience you’ll get there.

By the time I had finished the customers were delighted!

A shame the other lads didn’t want to have a go though!