Hi everyone,

I've just removed a polystyrene ceiling rose (yuck!) from my lounge
and want to get rid of the remaining adhesive residue without
destroying the lining paper/plaster above. Please can you advise me on
the best product to use for effective removal? Not sure what the
adhesive was, whether it was something like No More Nails etc, but
I've got a pic a href=http://www.ochremusic.com/pics/rose.jpghere/
a if it helps.

Any ideas? I do plan to get a replacement rose - would one of those
light acrylic roses be sacrilege? Or just a practical alternative to
conventional plaster roses?

Thanks for the help.

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Hi everyone,

I've just removed a polystyrene ceiling rose (yuck!) from my lounge
and want to get rid of the remaining adhesive residue without
destroying the lining paper/plaster above. Please can you advise me on
the best product to use for effective removal? Not sure what the
adhesive was, whether it was something like No More Nails etc, but
I've got a pic a href=http://www.ochremusic.com/pics/rose.jpghere/
a if it helps.

Any ideas? I do plan to get a replacement rose - would one of those
light acrylic roses be sacrilege? Or just a practical alternative to
conventional plaster roses?

Thanks for the help.


If you're going to replace it there is no need to remove whats there.

ps a plaster ceiling rose will only cost you £14 if that.

Chris wrote:
Hi everyone,

I've just removed a polystyrene ceiling rose (yuck!) from my lounge
and want to get rid of the remaining adhesive residue without
destroying the lining paper/plaster above. Please can you advise me on
the best product to use for effective removal? Not sure what the
adhesive was, whether it was something like No More Nails etc, but
I've got a pic a href=http://www.ochremusic.com/pics/rose.jpghere/
a if it helps.

Any ideas? I do plan to get a replacement rose - would one of those
light acrylic roses be sacrilege? Or just a practical alternative to
conventional plaster roses?

Thanks for the help.

It was probably a non solvent based contact, and as such nothing
practical will really dissolve it.

Sand it all off skim and repaint, or cover with something else.

http://tinyurl.com/3y2osu

Thanks, I'll try and sand down what's there and replace the rose with
something slightly larger. Thanks for the link too - I'd seen that
site from previous posts and noted the roses there. Looks like the
resin roses will be easier to handle than plaster, so I'll probably
plump for those. It'll be a step up from polystyrene anyway! :P