The most in depth tutorial on the Internet | plastering over ARTEX 

It is an absolute joy watching a true craftsman at work, but it did crack me up when your commentary came out with "stick a rocket up your arse". Your videos have given me the inspiration to cover an artex ceiling. I don't think you probably want to travel to Essex for a job!

Hope you had a laugh at the intro, my daughters always tell me my vids are boring... they were glued to the intro on this one 😂😂 they started laughing their heads of at the plastering nerds screenshot 😂

Haya mate, because of skill builder I’m here, you are the most natural person behind the camera ive seen in years, thanks for all your time and tips

Sand and plaster i'v used for years when filling in around plug sockets much much better than bonding..my dad's old trick that i still do today... good old dad the best plasterer i have ever seen.. no longer with us.❤

One day all of the artex ceilings will be skimmed over in the uk.. who will be the one doing the final honours is the question 😂 great informative video as usual Kirk 👍

Brought back so many memories of my late plasterer partner. He was very much like you in the style of his workmanship. Quality, every time. Loved watching, as I used to do him, for many years. He was 'on the tools' for 30+ years. Thank you for your time and effort bringing this informative vlog to so many. Top job, btw.👍🙂

You're a class act big man, as an earlier coment said you are a natural on camera. As joiner who does a bit of home scimming these videos are a great help, thanks a million!

Nice to see different techniques on artex working. I personally put bonding in with multi on my first hit to reduce suction and shrinking. 2nd hit is a standard multi spread and skim

Love your videos pal your the only plasterer i watch and enjoy and still learn from you to this day been plastering and rendering for 6 years and at the end of the day every days a learning day cheers kirk 👍

Multi trader here (specialist tiler 20yrs), loved it! I initially wondered why Brian Shaw has gone into plastering and clicked out of curiosity 🤣. New sub mate! 👍🏿

Top man best plastering video & tips starting skimmed my renovation came out lovely!

So happy as an early sub to see you’ve grown to the level you have Kirk. I just regret I’m so busy working on my own house at the minute I don’t have as much time to watch. But one day it’ll be done and I can watch all my favourite channels again! Class plastering as always!

Excellent video glad i found your channel, thanks

Used to hate reskimming over artex ceilings, quite enjoy them now mate with your little technique 👌🏼

Awesome Kirk Learnt alot again

I miss the smell of Bonding in the morning🤤, love your content mate! Im medically retired now, but i watch your tube and your realness is everything i miss about the game. 🤘

Well done Kirk excellent trades man

Nice video mate, appreciating all those tips!

Always great 👍 👌

Nice one Kirk, thank you sir 😄😄👍👍

Great video there mate…loads of information 👊🏼

Don’t know why but watching you plaster is very relaxing you make it look so easy and I know it isn’t thanks keep up the vids

Smashing video Kirk

I always like to throw some masking tape on the sockets Kirk, especially if they're brand new! Takes a couple of mins but i keep the screws in the socket front, held in with the tape so i cant lose them!

Great video

Top video from a top man 👍🏻

Put a dash of food coluring in the SBR can see easily where you glued up already then 👌

What a nice person

Great video!

Superb video. Extremely watchable. Nice guy 👍

Yer that intro good fun that 👍🏻

like . very informative

Your work is all about quality not quantity. You seem to take your time to get the best finish. Always as sign of a good tradesman. 👍👍👌👌🇬🇧

Good video

Like the new intro but prefer you in front of the van. Another good video full of good information and tips.

Fantastic video as always Kirk 👏 been with you since day 1 when you only had 27 subscribers now look your smashing it mate keep up the great content 👍 😁 would love too see you do a video on internal float & set one day 👍

Please be safe with electrics! Make sure you turn off the consumer board on either the circuit your dealing with ie (sockets bedroom 1)OR you turn off the main switch on the consumer board, if in doubt consult a professional electrician, try LOLYS (lock off leave yourself safe) this will mean switching off and locking the consumer board. This Master Plasterer is very experienced and knows his way around the systems so please be careful. A great video with excellent tutoriol , i will use to great effect on my own house, thank you so much.

Trying to think what saying is you more. Stay away from the edge. Take a little bit, or take it in neat ha 😂honestly cracks me up. Love the content Kirk keep it coming.👍🔥

I don't have a trade, but love watching your videos. Very satisfying watching someone skilled do a good job. A wireless lav microphone would take the overall video quality to the next level

🏍 Ty!

Anthor top job again mate 🧱👌

Such a genuine bloke. Thanks for all your content! Maybe an idea for a future video if it's viable... I've done a bit of plastering as a DIYer and renovating an old cottage. One job coming up this year for me is a large ceiling. I know it's beyond my skill/speed to do it myself in one shot but is there a way/proper technique for doing a large area in sections? At the moment I'm looking to get a pro in but feel like I could give it a bash with advice. Thanks again!

Great videos. Have ever had to repair a SPECKLED interior wall? With either air tool or a box that flicks speckles or a system you have developed. Any advice on this would be helpful.

Hi kirk Good morning hope your well. What a video I can relate to this as I had a lime wash ceiling in my house and artex crap not good stuff. unlike most of the 60s regards to the music scene quality. It was a change from old to modern building methods and a lot of crap was Invented as well And some good like the 70s that followed 👌 😅. And we are here now 80s tapped and bonded joints another crap idea. Best is pink stuff in a bag it's supper stuff... love it I'm wondering how many people that have contacted you as regards to seeing your videos and thought they could do it and completely fu-kEd it up. 😭😩🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Great video Kirk, love the additions in the background, I guess it’s not your dad with the comments. lol. Regards, Dave

Hi mate what’s best way of getting into this trade love your content buddy

I'm gonna have to come back to this one. You should see the artex we have on the living room walls. It's like running candle wax, awful.

Came straight from skill builder channel with your video with Roger

Brilliant video... I was just waiting for "starring 3 time oscar winner kirk johnstone".

Hi mate Love the videos they have given me the confidence to give it a go Im on the hunt for a decent trowl now 😂 any recommendations on one? What should i look at size wise too? Thanks

Kirk, great vids mate - I have a question.......when skimming over a bonding coat, what causes the tiny air bubbles that sometimes form in the finish coat? I've had this on occasion and I'm thinking that I've gone on to the bonding too quickly? (Not a plasterer by trade but do have to do it from time to time)....cheers mate!

Any thoughts on using plaster adhesive for rapid filling of channels before finishing with plaster?? It goes off so quickly, I've used it a few times on jobs for family and all seems good but daren't try it out with customers! I'm just a general handyman so only do small jobs mainly repairs for current customers.

Fair play ,plastering for time now ,seen your van in bagillt start of the year ,class Kirk ,love the shop gonna get me and my trainee a t shirt jumper set pal ,we don't stop till jobs done 😂😂😂love that bro

24 inch fan from Argos or DIY. Cut the drying time of PVA or SBR buy half. Bit of a lump to carry but if you need it one day it pays for itself. Who wants to wait. Great video as always. Packed full of information. I'll also add the ox rubber mixer will work in a diy 18v battery dril and mix plaster in a standard bucket. Always carry one for small mixes. Get some bank from ox to promote. It's the best thing they make. Ha

Skills

What plastering trowel are you useing and why and what is your recommendation for every day plastering trowel to use

Lovely chatting with you and Leyton today mate top fellas hope the k rend goes on nice and easy for you

You can drop a bit of food colouring into the sbr to see where you have been. Handy on dull dark cloudy days. Everyday in the uk 😂

Hi mate just wondering do you ever do anything to remove wallpaper glue or just sbr over it

That's not very easy, thanks for the lesson, I'd be much happier hiring you. Great job!

Quick question you put an accelerator to make the plaster go off quicker, if you didn’t seal the seal the ceiling would it have had the same effect as making the plaster going off quicker great video Chris

Well this is new 😀

In neat and tidy bigman 😁 wee change with the wooden handle buddy

Morning. Need a trowel like that. Could you put a link to your Amazon for this Trowel please . If you can’t write the code for the Trowel if you can please. Cheers. Great video! Top Notch content

Quality job kirk 👏 was the scrim tape over a crack in the artex? Just wondering 🤔 my Mrs wants me to plaster over my livingroom ceiling. The ceiling has exact same fan texture.

Can you do a video on cleaning up efficiently please

Your a soldier

Hi. A quick question. For some time now the plaster has been coming in a new form which dries faster, indicated by a green triangle on the bag telling you of this. Is it possible to get plaster that doesn't have this additive? Once upon a time, depending on the size of the room, I could get two walls on the go. Sadly, my knee joints are starting to let me down and I find it difficult to keep up with the plaster, the result being I can only cover one wall at a time. Ceilings now have to be done in 'half's' and feathered in. Can you offer any advice regarding this, please? Thanks

Hi love video Question im looking at doing a 6 week plastering course with gold trowel My question is would you expect me to be able to plaster to a nice Finnish all be it slowly Could I do small private jobs after this 6 week course Please be honest if I am wasting my time Thanks

Mancave productions 😂 👍👏

The trick is that . Way I explain it is if my first coat is actually flattening out picking up so that it's no longer following the shape of the background your on for your second coat 👍🏻 timing everytime and working to your own timing 👍🏻

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Hi kirk have you ever used pure finish plaster it is absolute amazing stuff I have swapped over to it now and use it all the time

40 years spreading and that is exactly how I would go about that job without the accelerator mind ,to old for that

Only held up by a coat of Paint. Always best to overboard & skim on fresh board & you don't end up with the lost margin around the coving that just looks so KaKa

You want to be careful using SBR kirk, it totally kills suction, as you know PVA re-emulsifies when finish hits it, but that's good cos it forms that grip. Speaking from experience, I SBR'D the exact same pattern as that. It held for 4 months, then the customer rang to say some had come down, I ended up taking the lot down and it looked like it had never been plastered at all! It just came down in huge sheets. I ended up using bostik grit coat , that did it. I'm very wary of SBR, I'm not using it anymore. And if you're doing the vids for beginners maybe you should explain the suction/no suction issues with PVA and SBR .

Just out of curiosity Kirk. How long from start to finish did this take you. I’m a part time plasterer amongst other things and struggle to gauge timings on different areas. With you from the start mate cracking content. Cheers

Hi Kirk, completely unrelated to this vid, but hopefully you could help me, I’ve gone to a job today with damp issues, and the previous builder has dot and dabbed 65mm insulation board onto a single skin brick wall. Very old house in Kingston, London. I’ve take off all the insulation boards which had all lifted off the dabs due to the damp, which had seemingly re activated the dabs as they were soft and easy to manipulate. How would you attack this job? Ideally I’ve got to work to the existing skirting line, which now is 75mm or so off the wall, rather than taking the skirting off. I was thinking of using insulated board but sticking it on with foam adhesive, after sbr’ing the brick of course. Or framing the wall and trying to keep it to the skirting depth. Cheers mate

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What software was you using for the voice over in this blog

What size trowel do you predominantly use for plastering?

We had ours done recently (1999 build) and the plasterers scraped the ceilings off then sealed then plastered - they didn't do a great job. Any benefits of scraping vs not scraping? Everyone I spoke to said not scraping would cause issues further down the line

Is there a situation you would need to use pva instead of sbr or is sbr just better to use all the time. Good vid 👍🏻

I have nightmares of kirk saying take a little bit and go in neat every night 😅

I like the intro the voice over made me laugh straight away

I've got Artex & coving throughout the whole of my house! (built in 1986). However, I've got the icicle type of Artex with a very pronounced & deep textured finish. Some bits look just like icicles. Questions is can this type of finish be scraped & plastered over without having to resort to over boarding & creating issues with the existing coving.

Love the vid kirk hope ur good mate

If after removing the socket face plate, you can screw the screws back into the holes in the back box and you won't lose the screws!

Plastering a ceiling has to be one of the hardest trades to master.. Time limited... Need accuracy and strength.. I'm a diyer and I'm getting ptsd just thinking about it 😂

haha, when i first started, it was my job to bond in around the sockets whilst the power was still on, i learned to be careful very early as not only did i blow a chunk out of my filling knife but it shot out of my hand and buried itself in the ceiling, lol ... 🤭

kirk could you do a video on bonding/hardwall a full brick wall from start to finish, if you can that is 😉

Me: How many ARTEX? Kirk: YES 😅 👍

why the change of trowel kirk. nice vid mate

What’s the point in cats?

It's worth testing for artex before skimming because you'll never know unless you go disturbing your lovely flat skimmed ceilings. My 1981 built house had it but my 'new' 1930s house which has had it boarded over does NOT. Got a few samples taken by a local bloke who sent it away and provided a report. So now, as much as it is messy, I have no issue with drilling or cutting anywhere in the house. Given the hundreds I have saved by watching Kirk's videos and doing my own plastering, I can afford it!!!

Can you come and do mine!! Come to Cornwall!!

i like you videos gut a tip you should never us bonding on brick work i draws the salt

Been on your channel since day 1 and love it..... but that background music all the way thru...... took me out. Keep it real Kirky lad.

Im guessing the new socket outlets weren't installed by an electrician?

Hi I live in Ainsdale by southport would you be able to come and give me a quote for three bedrooms house all ceilings have been stippled thanks