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I catch your drift. Thanks for the advice.

...on the other hand, I'm a bit unnerved by the fact the guys who want to scrape it off say they'll be coming with face masks and disposable overalls!!

A benefit I can see with scraping is that by disrupting the artex slightly then perhaps you're more likely to detect any more sections where the artex has blown...? Which just skimming over the top you may miss.

OK, thanks. Should have mentioned it's just the walls that have the ridges. The ceiling is spirals so already quite flat and so not much to scrape.

I've had a couple of other plasterers round and they are both happy to procede - they don't think the artex has blown, apart from the odd section towards the top. The artex on the walls is ridged, and these ridges are all quite raised. One of the plasterers wants to scrape all ridges off the...

Yeah its coming down in places, following the coving removal. But he was scraping at it pretty hard. And it seems reasonably solid for the most part... perhaps just a problem towards the top. It's held up since the 1970s after all.

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to scrape off the worst of it then get another plasterer in. This one seemed more worried about the asbestos in the artex than others I spoke to. I think that was his main concern, and why he fled. He did have a mask though. Wish I hadn't asked him to take...

Hi, I am not a plasterer, but looking for advice. I arranged for a plasterer to come to skim over all the artex walls in my hall, stairs & landing. He started by removing the coving. Then he applied a blue grit bonding agent. Then he noticed that the artex was loose in places and started...