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Redecorating

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I want to do some decorating this year when it’s warmed up a bit. I intended to do it last year but that wasn’t possible in the end, the furthest I got with that was buying the brushes. LoL. I’m going to try and redecorate my living room this year but upon inspecting it I realised my ceiling has a really nice pattern on it, looks a bit dated really but I like it.

Any-way I just wanted to ask what the ceiling is as it has grooves in it. Pictures below.

 

Is it ok to paint? Not sure if a brush will damage it as when I ran my finger across it it's a bit flaky Thinking

Does it require a certain paint?

I don’t want to damage it as it is a pretty design. Professional decorators would probably be best of course but I really want to give this a go myself as I love painting and when I decorated my room during the first Covid lockdown it came out better than I thought it would.

So if you are an expert on these things please share your words of wisdom with me. But even if you aren’t an expert still share your words of wisdom because I have no idea what I’m doing! Laughing

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  • Unknown said:
    I don’t want to damage it as it is a pretty design

    I remember intalling this sort of design in the early 80s with my father - it was the cool thing to have back then. I personally think it looks dated but I think that is often the case when you saw it first time around fashion wise.

    Those irregular lines would frustrate me after a while.

    My approach would be to either remove it (using a small, mobile scaffolding tower and big scraper) or plasterboard over it to get a clean finish.

    If you choose to paint, then If the plaster is already starting to crumble then I would recommend using a stabalising solution to bind it before painting - if it was an Artex job originally then they make a product called Stabilex for this purpose.

    Getting paint smoothly into all those grooves will be a challenge - a deep pile roller may work but is likely to get lumpy so thinning the paint (resulting in lots of splashed) may help, and doing it by brush overhead will be an arm/neck killer (been there, needed a physio appointment) so be wary of doing it yourself.

    Just a few thoughts from someone that does a lot of this sort of stuff.

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  • Unknown said:
    I don’t want to damage it as it is a pretty design

    I remember intalling this sort of design in the early 80s with my father - it was the cool thing to have back then. I personally think it looks dated but I think that is often the case when you saw it first time around fashion wise.

    Those irregular lines would frustrate me after a while.

    My approach would be to either remove it (using a small, mobile scaffolding tower and big scraper) or plasterboard over it to get a clean finish.

    If you choose to paint, then If the plaster is already starting to crumble then I would recommend using a stabalising solution to bind it before painting - if it was an Artex job originally then they make a product called Stabilex for this purpose.

    Getting paint smoothly into all those grooves will be a challenge - a deep pile roller may work but is likely to get lumpy so thinning the paint (resulting in lots of splashed) may help, and doing it by brush overhead will be an arm/neck killer (been there, needed a physio appointment) so be wary of doing it yourself.

    Just a few thoughts from someone that does a lot of this sort of stuff.

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  • in reply to Iain

    I hadn't thought of removal at first but it may come to that as it sounds like it will be challenging to pain and since reading about it potentially being asbestos I would need to have it done professionally as I can't be breathing that in. Sounds deadly anyway and with asthma it would be fatal for me I should think.

    Thanks for sparing these thoughts, I'm intrigued that you know so much about it. Are you/were you a builder? Excuse my nosiness I am a naturally nosy person and like to know interesting stuff like this lol Stuck out tongue closed eyesDoes that mean all this went up in the 1980s? I think my house is older but it has been modernised over time. It was two houses originally but made in to one house in the 80s or 90s, or roughly around that time. It could do with more modernising really, cement outside is beginning to fall from the around the bricks. Hoping I will be better financially in the next couple of years to get it some much needed TLC.