Smooth or textured
Smooth for a crisp white, textured plaster if an old wall will never come fully flat.
Plastering
A wall that is genuinely flat
Walls and ceilings smooth or in textured plaster. What you will think of the paint is already decided here.
We cover your house
Plastering is wet and dusty work. Floors, frames and the walking route go under cover first.
The same team paints too
Plaster and paint with one company: nobody points at the other if something is off.
Our work
Why it matters
Paint hides nothing, paint shows it up
A wall that is not flat only really shows once it is painted. Raking light from a window pulls out every bump and every seam, and with a silk finish it only gets worse. What you are looking at then is not a paint fault but a background that is not right.
So with us plastering is not an in-between step to be rushed. We take off the loose material, fill the holes, put on a primer where it is needed and then pull the wall smooth in layers.
- Old walls: first look at what has to come off and what can stay.
- New walls and plasterboard: seams filled and taken across the whole wall.
- External corners get a bead, so nothing chips out later.
- If you want to paper or tile afterwards, we work towards that finish.
What we do
Walls, ceilings and everything that was out of true
From one room to a whole house. Also if you only want the plastering and are doing the rest yourself.
01 — Walls
Smooth plaster or textured
Smooth is the choice if you want crisp white and the light falls straight onto the wall. Textured plaster has a fine grain and is more forgiving on an old wall that was never fully straight. When we measure up we say which of the two is wiser in your room.
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02 — Ceilings
Ceilings and old texture off
Sprayed finishes and old textured ceilings we take off or close up, and then we pull the ceiling smooth. That is the bit people notice the most difference from: a smooth ceiling makes a room feel higher and calmer straight away.
Then the painting
03 — Making good
Closed up again after the strip-out
A wall has come out, a door has been closed up or a pipe has had to go through the wall. Closing that up and then taking it across the whole wall is simply part of it with us, so you cannot see afterwards where the hole was.
See what we doOften comes with it
What usually sits around it
Plastering sits at the end of the rough work and at the start of the finishing. We do both sides.
Questions
What people ask about plastering
How long does plaster need to dry?
Longer than people think, and it depends on the thickness, the time of year and whether the room can be ventilated. We say so per job and we will not paint over it while it is still wet in the wall, because it comes back later if we do.
Can we stay living in the house?
Yes, but the room being worked on is out of use for a few days and it is damp in there. We cover the floor and the walking route and keep the dust in that one room as much as we can.
Can plaster go over wallpaper or over a sprayed finish?
Over wallpaper never: it lets go and takes the plaster with it. Over an old sprayed finish sometimes, if it is sound. We tap and scrape it first and then say whether it has to come off. That saves you a wall that starts bulging after six months.
Do you also do a single wall?
Yes. One room, one ceiling or one wall that needs closing up after a renovation is fine. You do not have to order a whole house alongside it.
What does plastering cost?
That depends on the state of the background, on the finish you want and on how much has to come off first. A smooth wall on new plasterboard is different work from an old wall that has to be stripped first. We come and look and you get a price on paper afterwards.
Walls or ceilings due for plaster?
One line about the room is enough. We call you back and come and see what the wall needs.