Polycell SmoothOver Textured Walls & Ceilings

I replastered a whole bathroom and a repaired a large area of my kitchen, including an archway.

Okay, it did take me half an hour to get the hang of it. But after that, it was so easy.

You don't get loads on the floor, provided you do not overcoat the roller. Anyway, a plastic sheet on the floor and you can scoop up any you do drop.

I did the bathroom first and did have a few tram lines to sand away. The kitchen, however, was almost perfect in one go. Just a tiny bit of sanding.

The finish was perfect and ready for painting, as good as any plasterer and better than some.

That was over two years ago and it's still all perfect.

Since then, due to a very bad back problem, I have had a painter in. He didn't believe that I had done the plastering.

I've used this a couple of times now and it is fairly expensive but cheaper than a plasterer. I would not recommend doing a room with it though. I've non skimmed botch job plastering in my house and have slowly been moving the odd door and redecorating rooms. I'm on a budget and sometimes there are areas that needed a lot of infill (door filled in but new and old plasterboard out by 5mm, window frame really shoddily plasterboarded with no edging, walls moved leaving thick ridges etc.). For these jobs it's fine. Use roller to get a fairly even coat, use scraper lightly to remove excess (catch and add back to bucket) then one or two slow steady firm (not too firm) scrapes and it's mostly there. If you have bubbles you didn't roll (initial scrape) well. However getting a smooth finish is only possible with sanding. Luckily this stuff sands down real easy. One other tip, if overlapping don't "finish" to the bottom leave last few inches lightly skimmed so you don't gouge ruts on the next row.

product does exactly what it says. perfect finish. apply once, let it dry for 24 hours, sandpaper uneven areas and you are ready to start paint job.

i suggest to try it on wall before doing any jobs at ceiling. would certainly recommend

I have just finished covering the artex on my kitchen walls. As long as you take your time and read the instructions its quite easy to get a descent finish. I used 2 tubs at £15.00 a time from Amazon and Ive still got some left over. It could be cheaper though!!

The sim seemed watery and left run bubbles. Filler worked better than this stuff. Really disappointed with this expensive time consuming mistake in purchase.

Paid around £50 for the product and "special tools was expensive. It would have been easier to coat the ceiling with cold porridge. The application roller and smoothing tool were useless. I'd like to see a video of someone applying this stuff to a ceiling. £250 from You've been framed would be a certainty !

My ceiling is going to need some serious sanding and possibly a plasterer.

Don't waste your cash on this rubbish

Recently I skimmed a wall for the first time. It was stressful and hard but satisfying. This is a nightmare. It is like a soft filler which refuses to smooth out, I have little lines all over and every inch needs to be sanded down. I'm wishing I just went with another skim coat because this stuff is horrendous!

What a total nightmare and a mess I want my money back now need to get in a plasterer all I wanted was smooth walls. The jerk in the video was so smug when he did it should have known it was Cheated. I'm going to complain to the standards agency and get watchdog to feature it. What did I like about it NOTHING AT ALL

I will rename this product ROUGH IT UP! Nightmare to apply and smooth, I was meant to be covering texture....what I ended up with was 100% worse than before, £40 poorer, wasted holiday. I say pay a plasterer.

Well Im a mere female who was faced with a wall that looked like the person who took the paper off was very vary angry, then had just painted over it, it almost looked like textured wall paper, which is why i needed help, had i of read these reviews before buying this product i would have bothered, but i had..... first off it doesnt go on easy like the product video so only do about 12" sq at time I found it alot easier having a bowl of water next to me to dip the scrapy tool thing in before dragging over as you would plaster as it dries really quick. 2nd dont fret too much about getting all level like a plaster would your better off making sure you have covered all those nasty marks, then the easy bit, sand it down with an electric sander is so easy, makes alot of dust, but the finish i got was great...... with out the cost of a plasterer too, it really is worth the effort