Textured ceiling options

[wainy]

Kitchen has a textured ceiling (swirls), now going to install new kitchen and am looking at doing something with ceiling as it has high wall units which basically go to ceiling.
Will also be removing coving so that may unearth some other surprises (expecting with what else we have found in this house!)

Options I can think of are:

1. Plasterer to skim over - this was done in living room and he ended up overboarding and skimming (lose some height with that)
2. Pull it down and replaster (may assist with possibly putting downlighters in)
3. Try and sand it (1985 house and ridge is about 2mm)

Any thoughts on costing of options 1 or 2? I am leaning towards options 2 or 3 but I reckon 3 will be time consuming!

[duff-man]

Option 2 - messy but the best way, especially if you are pulling down the coving as well.

Edited by duff-man on Tuesday 4th January 11:06

[mrmaggit]

You will need to use either Gypsum "Bond-it" or Feb "Blue Grit" on the Artex before you try to skim over, which is what my plasterer did in our kitchen.

Just skimming over could end up with a sheet of plaster on the floor, and PVA doesn't work, I know!

Overboarding then skimming is the other option, ripping the lot out just makes loads of mess before you re-board.

[Z4monster]

I used a steam stripper to clean this rubbish of a hall ceiling. It was very effective with a large scraper but did make a lot of mess. Once cleaned up the celing wasn't in bad shape and I papered over it anyway.

I'd moved a loft hatch so couldn't have matched it and wanted rid anyway. Hateful stuff!