Artex. Do you know the stuff I mean? It’s a skim of plaster that has been ‘textured’ and then painted. It looks horrible. It was popular in the 70s.

Roger’s bungalow has lots of it, on ceilings and on walls. Hilde has been attacking the stuff on the wall with a steamer. She started off with a product that claimed to be ‘artex remover’, which is entirely harmless to the user and the environment. Sounds good. Unfortunately, it is entirely harmless to the artex as well. Steaming and slow scraping seems to do it.

Meanwhile, Alex and Roger have been putting plaster boards in gaps in ceilings and partitions.