Funny ceilings - multi on stipple.

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ok no worries cheers im working at the end of my road tomorow so fooked if im driving all the way to bishops stortford to get a bag haha
 
Funny ceilings - multi on stipple.
how much?????
 
jamesthefirst said:
Skimming a painted ceiling Monday and artex ceiling Tuesday so will let you know.
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Ok used this stuff on 2 ceilings and it has gone as expected. Painted ceiling 15m in a 10year old house that had cracked on all the joins.First coat pulled in as others on here had mentioned so i made sure i had mixed too much up and flattened it in with some uni straight away. This was left for a bit longer than i would on board then second coated. Went on nice and easy and trowelled up ok aswell. Reminds me of carlite finish actually although that must be ten years since i used it.
Now the artex ceiling was 19 m and i could tell this was gonna suck in fast on the first coat which it did. Again i had some extra mixed up so i flatten straight away but not with a dry trowel, in effect it gets 3 coats in total. As i put on the first 10 metres i kept expecting it to craze or crack but it just bubbled a little.
I have some more artex ceilings to skim over in this house and will experiment with coating over the uni with multi to see how that goes.
Also had some patching to run in where 3 lengths of coving been removed and this had plaster and paint to get over and went on and trowelled/blended in a treat.
 
jamesthefirst said:
Ok used this stuff on 2 ceilings and it has gone as expected. Painted ceiling 15m in a 10year old house that had cracked on all the joins.First coat pulled in as others on here had mentioned so i made sure i had mixed too much up and flattened it in with some uni straight away. This was left for a bit longer than i would on board then second coated. Went on nice and easy and trowelled up ok aswell. Reminds me of carlite finish actually although that must be ten years since i used it.
Now the artex ceiling was 19 m and i could tell this was gonna suck in fast on the first coat which it did. Again i had some extra mixed up so i flatten straight away but not with a dry trowel, in effect it gets 3 coats in total. As i put on the first 10 metres i kept expecting it to craze or crack but it just bubbled a little.
I have some more artex ceilings to skim over in this house and will experiment with coating over the uni with multi to see how that goes.
Also had some patching to run in where 3 lengths of coving been removed and this had plaster and paint to get over and went on and trowelled/blended in a treat.
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Sounds like it would be a helluva lot easier to whack some pva on than to arse about with that.
 
Ashleyscoob said:
How will plaster stick to dry artex sealer will not work only works with artex as artex has some kind of adhesion in it
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Same as it does to bond it, wba et al.

I was told by a spread and didn't believe it myself, then was shown and it works. You don't have to try it, Ashley, but I use it a lot of the time and have, not once, been called back.
The trouble I have is getting hold of the stuff.

If you can get hold of some, paint some on an old bit of plasterboard when you do your next job as a test and if it works I want you to come back and give me a "like":RpS_thumbup:
 
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stuart23 said:
You would think if first coat is pulling in quick that you could lay on with same mix for second coat.
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Yeah, not used it myself but it sounds like you could complete a set in under 2 hours with no prep.

Not big areas though with stupid suction.
 
Fourplastering said:
Same as it does to bond it, wba et al.

I was told by a spread and didn't believe it myself, then was shown and it works. You don't have to try it, Ashley, but I use it a lot of the time and have, not once, been called back.
The trouble I have is getting hold of the stuff.

If you can get hold of some, paint some on an old bit of plasterboard when you do your next job as a test and if it works I want you to come back and give me a "like":RpS_thumbup:
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So if bondit had no grit would it still work all of them on the market all have some kind of grit or recycled plastic for plaster to grip too , artex sealer is only a suction controller ,bit like plastering dry PVa , have no problem getting hold of sealer m8 as still do lots of artexing but would still not try painting sealer on a existing artex ceiling or a painted wall then skim it ( try b&q or Dulux decorating centre they both stock sealer only in 2.5 litres now )
 
Ashleyscoob said:
So if bondit had no grit would it still work all of them on the market all have some kind of grit or recycled plastic for plaster to grip too , artex sealer is only a suction controller ,bit like plastering dry PVa , have no problem getting hold of sealer m8 as still do lots of artexing but would still not try painting sealer on a existing artex ceiling or a painted wall then skim it ( try b&q or Dulux decorating centre they both stock sealer only in 2.5 litres now )
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Then throw some sand in it ffs.
The Artex is the key.

Does plasterboard have a key?
 
stuart23 said:
You would think if first coat is pulling in quick that you could lay on with same mix for second coat.
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Thats what I did, but the artex pattern at that stage is still showing through so I let it pullin a bit longer before fresh batch and finish.
As for a painted ceiling with either hi or low suction it still gets a fresh batch mixed up as its final coat.
 
jamesthefirst said:
Thats what I did, but the artex pattern at that stage is still showing through so I let it pullin a bit longer before fresh batch and finish.
As for a painted ceiling with either hi or low suction it still gets a fresh batch mixed up as its final coat.
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If you brush your teeth do you spend at least five seconds on each tooth? It is recommended.

I certainly hope so, they could all fall out if the rules aren't adhered to.
 
If you wet it right down then its like a different mix.

The main thing to remember is that the second coat needs to slip over the top of the first rather than dragging it around.
 
jamesthefirst said:
Id be lying if I said yes.But I still think my walls and ceilings look better with my method rather than second coating with first mix.
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Fair play, whatever works for you marra, but I regularly use the same batch to second coat. I know a lot of the lads like to use a fresh batch for their second coat, but they also trowel in their first coat and wait a while whereas I just bang it on and once I've got the walls on that I want I just turn round and second-coat everything. If I've got some gear left from first-coating I ain't fkin throwing it, so it goes on the walls. Mind you - my first coat is nice and neat................I'm great I am :RpS_thumbup:
 
bubbles65 said:
Fair play, whatever works for you marra, but I regularly use the same batch to second coat. I know a lot of the lads like to use a fresh batch for their second coat, but they also trowel in their first coat and wait a while whereas I just bang it on and once I've got the walls on that I want I just turn round and second-coat everything. If I've got some gear left from first-coating I ain't fkin throwing it, so it goes on the walls. Mind you - my first coat is nice and neat................I'm great I am :RpS_thumbup:
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I do throw a lot away cos I'm a stubborn so and so.
Must also confess to laying on my second coat with the same first batch of carlite on high suction backgrounds in the old days.:glare:
 
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