Home DIY

I'd say kill it with fire but there is a possibility it contains asbestos so may not work.

Getting a decent plasterer to skim it is the easiest but not necessarily cheapest way to sort it.

We also suffer from this! Isn’t it wonderful!

Is it lath and plaster behind it?

1) Buy good house insurance cover

2) Buy flammable liquids to burn house down

3) Profit? Maybe not in monetary value, but in sanity.

Depends how well bonded it is, sometimes you can just scrape them off pretty good then just get someone to skim it (I do my own walls, but not ceilings, have to be very good to get ceilings looking respectable). Seen various 'flex deep smooth over' type fillers, all are going to give you random undulations as, doing ceilings to a good standard is hard.

If its really brittle stuff, you could also hire a wall sander and use that to grind them down.

Plaster over it