Plastering Artex Walls & Ceilings...PLASTERING NIGHTMARE SOLVED!! 

The Speedskim is one of the best pieces of kit I bought based on your recommendations. It's one of the tools that helped me get good results from day one when I did my first wall just over a year ago. Well worth the money.

Hi Blaine, I've been plastering nearly 18 months now, done the blueprint too 👌. In that time watched your videos and youve helped turn me into a half decent plaster and im getting good results, speed has upped a lot to. So just wanted to say thanks for the videos really appreciate um they are really helpful. Keep um coming pal. Best plastering channel on RU-vid by far. Cheers 👍

Amazing mate, keep up the good work! This channel is amazing for new plasterers and I legit been catching up on all your videos now as you provide huuuuge value & tips in every RU-vid video 👏 Thanks mate

It's just amazing to watch you work. Thank for sharing your skills.

This dude is a pro . He’s mastered his trade fr

You make it look so easy. Great work 👍

Top work! Spot on

How you stay so clean is beyond me!! I used to get covered in it!! Beautiful neat and tidy mate!!! 👊🏻👊🏻

Beautiful work !! You certainly are at the top of your game !!

Nice work young man lol! I never NEVER fucking NEVER! Bond over artex ceilings! It’s too much of a gamble Blaine! I like the fact you’re not comfortable about it either but what can you do if they don’t want to pay! Lovely work as usual lad ! 👊👊👊

Good bit of plastering bline, every time i watch your video its like am working with you thanks mate. Ps i watch them every day.

Top job as always mate 👍🏻 i bought a speedskim just after seeing your first video on it. It makes nightmare jobs so easy. Keep up the good content bud 😁

Cracking video once again. Find your videos really helpful as try the stuff out myself and makes it so much easier to do the job

Quality job as usual

Lovely job.

I must say that was a joy to watch....Well done Sir!

Great job, and you did it all without liberating any asbestos. You'd never run out of rooms like this here in the USA; there are places where it's normal to texture all the walls in each room, especially as you move toward the south-west. But a lot of people in those areas actually like it that way.

top class work. Well done sir.

love your vids buddy, so detailed 👍

Great video thanks

Have you considered making videos on lime/clay based plasters? I have watched a few of your videos and you have helped me funnily enough learning to plaster in lime. I went through quite an ordeal with my victorian flat where any place that had gypsum caused major condensation and rot on the ceiling joists, i think gypsum has a place but the idea of PVA and skim on everything gives me shivers now.

A work of art.

Top class plasterer great job

Nice job, believe it or not I had an artexing job to do the other week, had to use multifinish as I couldnt get hold of artex lol !

Nice one dude

By the title i thought it would be shocking walls by another plasterer . These walls are normal in old houses , pink grit then skim is my method if the walls are not to deep. you have done a fantastic job here matey

Artist at work. Cool job.

Great job always a pain in the arse plastering over artex👍

Great finish

Another great vid mate

Classy bit of work

That ratio plaster bonding will come in handy for the future. Better than scraping the old artex off. (Especially when it comes to older properties)

Great Video mate. I wish you'd start taking a clock with you and doing start to finish jobs on time lapse;)

Absolute masterful as always Blaine. Your videos inspire me to never want to give up and continue trying to get it right. Where did you get that wrist strap mate? It looks like it could help me, with the way it looks to wrap around your thumb too!

Nice job bruv top marks. Yeah I would have just screwed the ceiling back into place. Unless badly cracked. 👍

Hi Blaine 👋, lovely job mate ,superb, just wondering if you could use a speedskim on the bonding instead of the straight edge, or does it not work like that ,but anyway mate top job

Use a fluffy paint roller. It makes applying PVA a dream

Hi mate, what are your views on using sbr instead of pva? I'm told it kills the suction on whatever surface you want to control? Thanks, great video as always 👍

What a finish! Smooth as f!

Hello fella just a bit of constructive criticism, you've scratched the bonding to give the skim coat a key but the artex has no key for the first coat of bonding as long as the artex was done post 1999 then there's no issue with asbestos, I always score the artex with a stanley knife in diamond shapes then pva it that gives a good key for the first coat of bonding and will never come off. BTW the artex pattern is called broken leather. Can't beat skimming on bonding the same day you get a lovely finish, I love forming hand turned coves with bonding and skimming it the same day the finish you get is top notch.

Top class video mate

Awesome work as usual, always great content in your vids. I’ve been plastering for people on and off for a good 10 years now but still learn something new from your posts, recently had a full house of artex to cover over, that was fun! Quick question though that I’m sure you’ve covered previously, when skimming onto old walls with horrendous suction, do you still manage to get a away with pva? Had a couple of jobs recently and even after 3 good pva coats, still pulling in too quick, nightmare on a staircase! Seen posts regarding blue grit but if going in the day before to coat up isn’t an option?? Anyone had success with SBR to seal internal walls instead of pva? Any tips from you or anyone else much appreciated! Cheers again for the excellent channel👍

Hi Blaine. Thanks for all the work you do in helping us. I'm an absolute DIY beginner. I am currently faced with an indoor brick wall that has been hit by something and damaged the plaster in a localised area (20cm X 20cm). There is a half inch thick chunk of plaster missing. Would you be able to direct me as to which approach may be ideal to repair such? Thanks ever so much 👌

Hi Blain, does the bonding mixed in the multi finish change the feel of the product?

Top work pal, you did a day bonding full room incl ceiling, surely you not doing it on a day rate ? that,s got to be a price job ?

Cracking job there mate. Enjoyed the video. Quick question if i have to plaster part bathroom that has moisture resistant plasterboard do i have to bond it first

Love it

Have you ever seen anyone mix up bonding in an old cement mixer. ? I have, it don't end up well. Lol 1st bucket full went ok, time he came down to get his 2nd bucket it was stuck fast.!! New cement mixer needed now needed. Lol This was over 20 years ago but it still makes me laugh every time I hear the word bonding . Great videos mate, keep them coming.

I tend to use blue grit on artex stops the idea of wanting for ages for the pva to go off I just come back the next day.

Quick recommendation for priming your walls with PVA, I used to use a block masonry brush to apply it also however I now use a paint shuttle and roller set and now takes a fraction of the time, I still use a brush for all the edges tho. Also if you used blue grit and gave it 2 nice coats with finish they would’ve came out quality still.

Do you have to PVA if you just multi finish on top of it?

Does your water brush leave brush marks in the plaster when you're cross-trowelling mate?

Great video. To be honest the majority of my jobs have been covering artex like this, hate doing them but always worth it when see finished product. I still trowel all my work as not bought a speed-skim as yet, watched your reviews, but still not decided which one is best to get. Any help appreciated.

Excellent as always. I'm just about to plaster a small bathroom that has Artex on the walls already. Is bonding ok to use in humid areas like a bathroom? I've heard that it absorbs moisture.

How come you don't use a roller for pva

How many hours after the plastering you do the we troweling?

Hi Blaine. What's the details of your water brush ? I've seen them on line but not sure what one to buy as yours looks like it holds a good amount of water. 👍

Mate how big was that set ? 4 bag 1st 2 bag second ? Looks bloody massive I think I need to up my game wow on bonding too high suction impressive 👏

I forget you guys don't believe in paint rollers and prefer the good old brush for the of pva. I worked with an Irish painter that told me he never saw a roller until he came to California. This was around 1989. It's amazing to me how you actually 4 coated those walls the way you did. It's looks terrific. They'd do a one coat where I am, and it would have to be good enough..

Hi. Do you worry avout asbestos in those artex ceiling. Company I work for checks all artex. I know its different when self employed though but just wondered.

What stilts are you using. Nice work as well mate

I started watching youre videos when we bought our first house and every room needs doing. It took me a good 3days to pluck up the courage to open my first bag of plarster. To my amazement it went and looked better than I expected. Thank you for the videos. P.s All my walls were not straight ether

Do you ever use a Darby

Did Rhino Artex finish on a ceiling, it took loads bags of bonding to cover and to this day don't know how it is still up there with the weight.

I'm convinced devil floats are from pre pva days (years ago) and do absolutely nothing these days. Seen plenty of plaster coming off where they were used if the plaster layers don't stick to each other. Jmo. I have never used one. Never will. Great work though. Dump kit in soda to clean is what I do

Hi Blaine. Just wondering when you bonded over the artex walls to float, did you give it 2 coats of bonding? Also I noticed in video that there was no scraping off any high spots of artex. Did you actually scrape any off when not filming?

Well done getting over that ceiling 👍👍 Shame on the Client's for being utter tite assed..£8 a board and screws you be lucky to spend £100 in materials on that lid. Some Want a class act but ain't got the money... Quality plasterer's & painters are worth the weight in gold

Did you use bonding in your second coat pressuming no ?

Hi blaine how many days did that take to finish that big room

Hi mate, is it good enough to skim over existing paint? I see u just applied PVA on it. Thanks

You can remove the artex with a steamer. Comes off easy on solid walls. But i usually do it the way you did it in this video.

Blaine did u speed skim the second coat aswell and if so did u use a steel or plastic blade

Great job there Blaine the only criticism I could say was you were dictated by customer for ceiling? I understand money side but the time and effort you put in skimming screwing it up etc the cost in overboard is minimal with your time on it already. Do you agree just curious? I’ve had this issue plenty of times over the years I’m even starting to complete mesh over skims now.

How do you judge when to use the devil's float on the bonding?

Did screwing the old ceiling boards to the joists seem to secure them - i.e. take out the bounce? Ps haven’t watched the video all the way through yet.

Could dab straight over the artex? Would u still need to pva

I have been plastering for a long time now, and I stopped plastering on to artex ceilings because sometimes they just drop off, even when you do all what this lads done, never new why they fell off . So don't take the risk of that , just drop the ceiling and start again

Magic mix ..

Have you tried the magic mix? Bonding with multi? Works great over artex? I was a little sceptical but use it when I'm going over something that needs a deeper mix. Great work 👍

Why have you applied pva when you have devil floated the bonding it already has a key?is it because you left it a few days?

Why u wait 3 days? Can not do next day Skimming? Thx

May as well use a normal feather edge and put a float over it and that would let the air into it and set quicker or a couple of hand fulls of cement witch would make it set a lot quicker so it could be finished much sooner than just waiting around for it to go off normal and maybe not be able to finish it same day and have to come back the next day before all these new products and we used sand and cement sometimes we had to wait three days before we could finish it because if the blocks were wet it would run down the walls if you didn’t leave it on the wall pulling in before anything else could be done and even then if you were lucky as sometimes it would be three days just to get it floated up and then two days to wait letting it go hard enough to skim because if it’s to green the skin will blow and just not take proper so it’s so important to know what you are doing in these cases but it’s being lost all the knowledge as it’s so different lately and I feel sorry for new youngsters just starting to learn the trade as plastering is a really lot to learn if you want to be a proper tradesmen and six years to learn maybe more as you don’t do everything and a finish might not be done for ages and pop up out of the blue and then it’s your time to learn it I’ve been plastering over 45 years and still I lean new things and always will so you need a open mind and relise no one knows everything 👍👍

👍

I would have wanted that old ceiling ripping out and starting again even if it did cost extra, personal preference.

Good days Graft

Never had had any success going on pva bonding blisters every where always done bond and set same day ?

I work for a local council and we are not allowed to touch artex until it has been tested for asbestos..not even a nail or screw..

I may be teaching you to suck eggs, I don't know, but I've not heard you talk of 'Carlite Finish' at all. It used to be the Go-To for Carlite Browning then Hardwall, but many builders merchants stopped stocking it when Multi-Finish came out ..... However! If your S&C Render, Bonding, Hardwall render ever gets far too dry, it's THE finish to use 'without' the need for Glueing Up all the time :-( .... I doubt it's called Carlite Finish anymore, it used to have a Pinky-Purple end to the bag up to a few years ago ... Might be well worth checking out - I reckon you'd LOVE the time it saves, and how easy it spreads .... No good on FRESH render though ......

🤔What we’re they doing upstairs to pop all the nails in the ceiling 🤔😳🤭

Hawk and trowel , then darby? Wow you dont see that every day.

Dot and dab

Scrape back pva 2 coats of skim a lot easier

crack

Bonding should not be used on artex

👍