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We're at the NECC getting ready to
do some demonstrations on how ex-tex

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on how X-Texex works from EcoSolutions,
that's getting rid of textured coatings

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That's getting rid of textured coatings. But of course before
we do that, we've got to have some textures coatings to remove

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So I'm Artex at a few boards getting ready and I
thought it's a great idea just to do a short video

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about RTEX in itself. RTEX can
be mixed, can be bought in tub

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ready made or it can be mixed in bags and
it can be mixed as thin and as thick as

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you like I prefer to mix it thick and I
prefer to put it on with the trowel for

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really uneven wonky crack ceilings tape
them up first and then trawl it on just

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like plaster and get a thicker coating
and I believe if you're trying to cover

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up a really rough surface a thicker
coating is better to do that you can mix it

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thin you can roll it on and stipple it
gently however what we're gonna do we're

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We're going to lay our artex on fairly thickly
with a float, just as you would skin plaster

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Okay, the difference with skin plaster is if we're stifling
this, it doesn't necessarily have to be particularly smooth

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It just needs to be of a regular thickness, a fairly
uniform thickness, over the surface of the board

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your ceiling or your wall or whatever it is
you're trying to cover up so get a fairly

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uniform thickness don't spend a lot of
time on that once we've got it on the

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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

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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

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R-Tex back. We can play about with it forever.
The tendency is these days is not to use

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R-Tex. People are moving away from R-Tex, but it's
still, there's no question about it, it still

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does cover up a lot of imperfections. To go
around the edges, we get a normal pan brush

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and we just run a brush
finish around the edge

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So there we have an RTEX ceiling