Bathroom, mould treatment/painting advice

Hi Guys, I've been sorting out various mould issues in my new home (successfully) and now it's the turn of my bathroom.
The previous owner of my house was a 'minger' and it's been a time consuming job all round but I've come to realise that he has also just painted over a pre-existing mould problem on the bathroom ceiling, making it look fine when I moved in but over time I saw these dark patches starting to show through the paint, becoming gradually more clear until I realised it was mould working its way through the paint layer. Yuk.

Anyway, previous mould has been sorted by using an anti-fungal treatment that is painted on then excess wiped off, followed by Zinser anti mould/stain primer (lethal stuff) then Zinser anti-mould White primer paint which can be tinted if required....these were only walls and no other type of surface. All these products were used correctly as per their instructions.

What I'm wondering is this: my bathroom ceiling is Artexed with that awful stiple effect, there's a layer of paint on top of lots of mould still trying to come through and to make things worse, my bathroom is an internal room with no windows, only an extractor fan (newly replaced by my electrician when I moved in) so what's the best plan of attack please...?

1)How best do I ensure this mould is properly treated before I progress to paint jobs? I can't be sanding the Artex off, I'm not physically up to this so I'd have to pay someone at that point if this was really required.....

2)Can I just do as before when I sorted out my walls? If not why not?

3)I'm a full time student now so money is an issue and I must spend very wisely, doing everything myself where possible...unless I'm not physically capable in which case if I'm paying someone who am I looking for, is it a painter and decorator and how do I find a good one who will know what they are doing...?

All advice gratefully recieved

I know you said you weren't going to sand it anyway... but just to make you aware, artex as a rule should not be sanded.... quite a bit of it actually contained asbestos... you don't know if your does unless a sample gets sent off to a lab.

Hi Adam, thanks I didn't know that....not sure how old mine is so no ide but as I said I'm not planning on doing that as would be too labour intensive anyway out of interest, if I wanted a normal flat finish I take it that replastering is the answer there then?
It looks like I'll be doing what I had planned which is same as I did on my walls to treat the mould there.

I thought asbestos went out with the dodo...?

Any Building built before year 2000 could contain white asbestos believe it or not. Blue and Brown were banned in the 1980s.

It was mainly white asbestos in artex, but the others may have been used. I *think* they phased all of it out when the first bans came in in the 80s, so it is likely that if it was applied in the 90s, it would be *unlikely* to contain it, however if it was a DIY job, it could have been a 20 year old bag he had in the shed..... so you can't know for sure unless tested.

No problem going it it with the anti mould spray, might take a bit of scrubbing though. I wouldn't immediatly panic if the artex ends up separating from the ceiling during cleaning, generally the fact that its soaked with water containing cleaning products will keep it from spreading fibres around, although one should not intentionally remove it in this manner.