Cover over artex in a bathroom?

Question

What is the safest, cheapest and best way to cover over a bathroom that is wall to wall artex (years old - possibly 30 odd) so that I can either tile, paint or cover it with something else that is suitable such as wall boards?

Javed · Accepted Answer

Hi there, essentially you need to de-nib the article, quick scrap taking off the high points or nibs of the artex, PVA what’s left and plaster.
That presuming the artex is still well bonded to the walls, if not you need to
Remove any loose parts.

Lloyd · Answer

You can scrape it off using wallpaper steamer and scraper ****if it does not have asbestos**** 

If you're unsure if it has asbestos, I 100% recommended trying to find out before you even touch it.

You can also skin over artex with plaster to give a smooth surface to paint or tile onto.

Paul · Answer

Hi there. I would not paint over it. The safest way. Would be to even tile over the artex. Or you could use wallboards. This would be the safest way. That I would do it

William · Answer

You're better getting this plastered over as you couldn’t get tiles to stick to artex

Mohammad · Answer

You can cover it by using a PVC sheet that comes in different colours.

Tony · Answer

Scrape it all off, bond over it and re skim it. Cheapest way

Mark · Answer

Simply plaster it and paint it, Tile it if you fancy, nice decorative light, a mirror, yea that's the way forward.

Adrian · Answer

Hi, depending on how thick the artex is the quickest way of preparing the walls is to use (Feb - Blue Grit) this gives a strong bonding quality and seals the walls, once dry you can tile strait over the artex. You must make sure the artex is solid and not flaking or coming away from the wall first. ( with all old artex you MUST be sure it does not contain ASBESTOS before scraping loose or blown areas off. Please have it checked out beforehand if you have any doubt. Hope this helps
Regards

Daniel · Answer

The cheaper option that you would have to take the old Artex of the walls would be to plaster or if you're going to be putting tiles on the walls then you would have to bond the walls out so there straight and perfect but you would have to scrape the walls before hand.

Daniel · Answer

You can plaster it all depends how thick it is but you can use multi finish straight on to it if it’s thin artex but if it’s thick artex use bonding backing plaster first then multi finish if thick artex

Cover over artex in a bathroom?

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