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[steve1976]

Got a homer to do for a woman, artex ceiling in kitchen and bit of a wall (patching).Started it monday night,labourer pva ceiling ,i mixed few buckets of bonding and started coating. Everthing going great told woman i come back wed night to skim it. Wed night came after working all day on site got the phone call labourer let me down so went on myself PVA on the bonding mixed up few buckets got ceiling on and troweled up well, started on the wall got it sorted,finishing up around 9;00pm happy days. Woman comes in saying great job heres your money ,i told her im nearly finished have to give it a shine, shined the ceiling then on the wall when BANG!!!!! the f###ing ceiling landed at my f###ing feet. Woman and kids come running out thinking i came off the stilts , kids laughing ,she dumbfounded me nearly crying :'(Fair play to the woman though she dead on about it ,give me half the money and she getting it plasterboarded and il skim it on mon for her .You have to laugh at it but i was'nt at the time ;D ;D Sorry for the neverending story there but had to tell someone.. ;D

 

[trowledover]

these things happen ;D ;D

 

[eddie]

Got a homer to do for a woman, artex ceiling in kitchen and bit of a wall (patching).Started it monday night,labourer pva ceiling ,i mixed few buckets of bonding and started coating. Everthing going great told woman i come back wed night to skim it. Wed night came after working all day on site got the phone call labourer let me down so went on myself PVA on the bonding mixed up few buckets got ceiling on and troweled up well, started on the wall got it sorted,finishing up around 9;00pm happy days. Woman comes in saying great job heres your money ,i told her im nearly finished have to give it a shine, shined the ceiling then on the wall when BANG!!!!! the f###ing ceiling landed at my f###ing feet. Woman and kids come running out thinking i came off the stilts , kids laughing ,she dumbfounded me nearly crying :'(Fair play to the woman though she dead on about it ,give me half the money and she getting it plasterboarded and il skim it on mon for her .You have to laugh at it but i was'nt at the time ;D ;D Sorry for the neverending story there but had to tell someone.. ;D

the first time i went over artex was in greame souness,s house and it came of(not on his head,mores the pity as hes a t**t of the highest order).never liked going over it and board it whenever poss

 

[Peg]

Happened to us a couple of times, last time we were the same, 2nd coat on, trowelled up and just about to polish it. Noticed a bubble about the size of a 50p piece, started to cut it out with trowel, next thing more than half the ceiling came down on both of us! To top it off the woman walked in and was pissing herself laughing! Not very funny though. Had to scrape off all loose artex, glue ceiling and start again. Best bit 4 hours gone! Also check for lining paper under artex as this has posed problems for us before.

 

[Wilson]

Bloody hell! I wouldn't know what to say to the poor dear in that situation :

 

[bigsegs]

how about 'You know you asked me to level the ceiling...' ;D

 

[trowledover]

i always tell them of the posability of it happening when i go to have a look at the job

 

[bodplasterer]

Oh man thats a nightmare, had it happen to my self a few times, it gets you on a right downer. :-[ Nowadays we always recomend overboarding artex due to the fact that this happens. And dont recomend scraping the high spots off either, as we do alot of work for a asbestos removal company. And the work we mainly do is ceilings that have been removed by them, because they contain asbestos I think they are only small traces but best not to take the chance.

 

[martin75]

Hello Mate

sorry to hear about your "incident" i tell you what though you have made me laugh for the first time today, most plasteres normally fall off the steps when looking at the customers wifes assets but the ceiling falling down is new one to me. bet you cringe when asked to skim over artex again???

 

[user_removed]

artex is very dodgey mate i always tend to either give it 3 good coats of plaster or-
rough it first then skim it.
to be honest if it was a ceilling i would consider rippin old ceilling down back to joist's and re-boarding it
then u kno the job is spot on.
sorry if any spelling wrong just had a few tonight

 

[bigsegs]

one of the reasons i never bond out artex ceilings first is the weight... if you stick 2 bags of bonding up there then 2 bags of finish thats 100kg on top of maybe 25kg of artex and if its been skimmed under that maybe another 50 kg then the boards, or maybe lath and plaster.... then if its been nailed up old stylie and theyve been a bit tight with the nails you could possibly have a problem, especially if its been damp before or its starting to come loose already...hardly surprising they have a tendency of giving up...
always gonna be better to rip it down but no-one want to pay 3 times for it...
newer ceilings tend to be shallow coat artex straight over board anyway, nice and easy usually, its the old ones that can be a pain...
p.s.
i am so glad that wasnt me...
go and have a beer or three

 

[steve1976]

Im glad to hear it happening to others , i was thinking it was just me. Learned my lesson though Reboarding it the best job to do with it ! few drinks to night alright!