We're at the NECC getting ready to do some demonstrations on how ex-tex
on how X-Texex works from EcoSolutions, that's getting rid of textured coatings
That's getting rid of textured coatings. But of course before we do that, we've got to have some textures coatings to remove
So I'm Artex at a few boards getting ready and I thought it's a great idea just to do a short video
about RTEX in itself. RTEX can be mixed, can be bought in tub
ready made or it can be mixed in bags and it can be mixed as thin and as thick as
you like I prefer to mix it thick and I prefer to put it on with the trowel for
really uneven wonky crack ceilings tape them up first and then trawl it on just
like plaster and get a thicker coating and I believe if you're trying to cover
up a really rough surface a thicker coating is better to do that you can mix it
thin you can roll it on and stipple it gently however what we're gonna do we're
We're going to lay our artex on fairly thickly with a float, just as you would skin plaster
Okay, the difference with skin plaster is if we're stifling this, it doesn't necessarily have to be particularly smooth
It just needs to be of a regular thickness, a fairly uniform thickness, over the surface of the board
your ceiling or your wall or whatever it is you're trying to cover up so get a fairly
uniform thickness don't spend a lot of time on that once we've got it on the
wall we don spend a fortune on really expensive stippling bags we get a 50p decorator sponge and we put it in a normal Sainsbury carrier bag or Tesco Any carrier bag will do grip it tightly and there we have
And there we have a stippled artex finish. We can even do a few swells with this, grip it tightly at the back, twist and pull
R-Tex back. We can play about with it forever. The tendency is these days is not to use
R-Tex. People are moving away from R-Tex, but it's still, there's no question about it, it still
does cover up a lot of imperfections. To go around the edges, we get a normal pan brush
and we just run a brush finish around the edge
So there we have an RTEX ceiling