I'm repairing a hole about 6" square in a stipple pattern artexed
ceiling.

I've made good the plaster but what's the best material and technique
to make good the original artex finish. It's right in the middle of
the ceiling so will be quite noticeable if I don't get it right.
Ideally I was looking for a small 'polyfilla' sized pot of artex but
can't find anything like it. Any ideas?

Thanks

On 2007-09-17 16:37:28 +0100, Gumball said:

I'm repairing a hole about 6" square in a stipple pattern artexed
ceiling.

I've made good the plaster but what's the best material and technique
to make good the original artex finish. It's right in the middle of
the ceiling so will be quite noticeable if I don't get it right.
Ideally I was looking for a small 'polyfilla' sized pot of artex but
can't find anything like it. Any ideas?

Thanks

You can get these. I had a similar repair to do a while ago and found
a tub in B&Q. More recently I bought some filler for another job
and there was only 10kg bags for (IIRC) about £30 which is a bit much.
perhaps a call to the manufacturer?

The main thing is to figure out how the original pattern was done.
Practice that on a scrap of board. Normally it's a stipple pad or
stipple pad in a plastic bag.

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:49:15 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-09-17 16:37:28 +0100, Gumball said:

I'm repairing a hole about 6" square in a stipple pattern artexed
ceiling.

I've made good the plaster but what's the best material and technique
to make good the original artex finish. It's right in the middle of
the ceiling so will be quite noticeable if I don't get it right.
Ideally I was looking for a small 'polyfilla' sized pot of artex but
can't find anything like it. Any ideas?

Thanks

You can get these. I had a similar repair to do a while ago and found
a tub in B&Q. More recently I bought some filler for another job
and there was only 10kg bags for (IIRC) about £30 which is a bit much.
perhaps a call to the manufacturer?

The main thing is to figure out how the original pattern was done.
Practice that on a scrap of board. Normally it's a stipple pad or
stipple pad in a plastic bag.

Yes you're right, I must have missed it in the store but it's on the
B+Q website at £6.50 for 1.5 litres ready mixed. Having said that, 5KG
of dry mix is also £6.50, so I'll go for that and have plenty to
practice my patterns with.

Thanks

On 2007-09-17 17:13:45 +0100, Gumball said:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:49:15 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-09-17 16:37:28 +0100, Gumball said:

I'm repairing a hole about 6" square in a stipple pattern artexed
ceiling.

I've made good the plaster but what's the best material and technique
to make good the original artex finish. It's right in the middle of
the ceiling so will be quite noticeable if I don't get it right.
Ideally I was looking for a small 'polyfilla' sized pot of artex but
can't find anything like it. Any ideas?

Thanks

You can get these. I had a similar repair to do a while ago and found
a tub in B&Q. More recently I bought some filler for another job
and there was only 10kg bags for (IIRC) about £30 which is a bit much.
perhaps a call to the manufacturer?

The main thing is to figure out how the original pattern was done.
Practice that on a scrap of board. Normally it's a stipple pad or
stipple pad in a plastic bag.

Yes you're right, I must have missed it in the store but it's on the
B+Q website at £6.50 for 1.5 litres ready mixed. Having said that, 5KG
of dry mix is also £6.50, so I'll go for that and have plenty to
practice my patterns with.

Thanks

It takes quite a long time for it to go off so you have plenty of time
to play about with the pattern after laying on the material.

A few other things.

The Artex web site has a downloadable brochure on how to do various patterns.

It's a good idea to try to combine the pattern into the surrounding
area by a few cm. rather than forming a distinct edge with the
patched area

There's a fair chance that you will need to repaint the ceiling unless
you can match the existing colour - usually unlikely. However, when
looking at the patched area, try to differentiate between differences
in pattern/texture vs. differences in colour.