Walls and Ceilings - Do I need to re artex

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nic
01-04-05, 09:07 AM
The ceiling in shower room was mucky brown textured artex. I decided to paint it white. Made sure room was dry for a couple of days then painted with emulsion. Straight away as it dried it cracked and blebed in big patches where paint was loose. I started to scrap off paint and found I scrapped off artex back to board. It seems like a sheet of MDF? (house is 5yrs old). Do I need to re artex over the board or would it be ok to just paint over the board?
Thanks

awesomedell
01-04-05, 09:30 AM
I'm not aware of any MDF panels, doesn't mean they don't exist, but I imagine what you've got on that ceiling is either drywall, or possibly a product which is commonly called bath panel in this area anyway, it's made of a poly resin, but I've never seen it painted with much success.

I would scrape off all of the textured artex, there is a product called x-tex, which is purported to be the end all for removing artex. Just paint it over the artex & the nscrape off. Artex would be a very poor choice for a shower room IMO, since it is water based. Anyway once you've got it scraped back down to the raw board, I would use an oil based primer and paint in a shower room. This will hold up much better than latex paint.

HTH.