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I'm definitely no expert but I read on another thread that you should use diluted paint when painting over an artexed ceiling for the first time, and give it a few coats. Can't find the post I read it on now.

Unfortunately got artex in the front room. Not done very well either. Some very poor amateurish stipple thing going on. There is no point asking them to sort out anything like the ceiling, its taken 2 years of them saying they are going to sort out the damp coming up the walls for me to get...

Luckily the room isn't too big. I'll get started on it tomorrow, after I go and buy some safety glasses/goggles, as well as some gloves, that powdery stuff has made my hands itch and burn. I scraped a little bit of the powdery base layer off, its very thin and underneath this is grey...

I've just been up the ladders to get a proper look at it. It looks like a matt paint (almost chalky) is the base. We painted over another matt paint, that then started to bubble and lift off. I just started to scrape off the peeled/bubbled paint and it's mainly just chipping straight off...

The answer to my question came up at the bottom. Still undecided what to use though. But that will teach me to use the search facility before asking questions :oops:

I've been given a paint pad set by a friend who's decided to paper rather than paint. Has anyone used one of these before? Are they any good? Will it give a different effect to a paint roller? I like to know whats what before I start using something I haven't used before!!

Hi, I want to paint the ceiling in my dining room, last time this was attempted by my ex bf, but as he started to roller the paint on the paint started to bubble and then peel off. Unfortunately he just left it and carried on decorating the walls and just ignored the ceiling!! I can not...