Next free week: w/c 20 Oct
01823 000000Plastering & rendering · Taunton / Est. 2009
Walls you could lay a spirit level on.
Skims, re-plasters, ceilings and external render across Taunton and west Somerset. Send the room size and a photo and we will send a price back the same day.
- Tolerance
- ±1 mm / 2 m
- Price back
- Same day
- A bedroom
- One day
- Waste
- Taken away
Raking light, leftFinish: pink skim, drying
01 / Prices
What it costs
Rooms priced for a standard skim over sound plaster. If it needs hacking off and re-boarding, we will say so from the photo.
By the room
Walls
A skim is priced on the room, not the hour. Most bedrooms are one day, one visit, one price.
Cost more
Ceilings
Working overhead is slower, and textured ceilings are tested for asbestos before anything is touched.
By the m²
Render
Outside work is measured, because mesh, beads and scaffold scale with the wall, not the room.
| Job | What’s included | Typical time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skim a bedroom | Walls only, average double bedroom. Usually one day. | 1 day | From £380 |
| Skim a ceiling | Overboarded if needed. Artex is tested for asbestos before we touch it. | 1 day | From £320 |
| Hack off & re-plaster | For blown or crumbling walls. Priced per wall after a photo. | 1–3 days | Quoted |
| Through-coloured render | Per square metre including mesh, beads and scaffold tower. | 2–5 days | From £60/m² |
| Patch repairs | Around new sockets, after a rewire or where a fixture came off. | ½ day | From £120 |
All prices include sheeting, clean-up and waste. Fully insured.
02 / The coats
Four layers to flat
What actually happens between a tired wall and one you can paint. Most rooms are only the last two.
- 01
Coat 1 of 4
Strip & prep
Blown plaster hacked back to sound, beads fixed, sockets masked, floors and doorways sheeted before a bucket is mixed.
- 02
Coat 2 of 4
Float coat
Where a wall is out, a backing coat brings it back to true, ruled off with a straight edge and scratched to key.
- 03
Coat 3 of 4
Two-coat skim
Finish plaster in two thin coats, trowelled up three times as it firms, then checked in side light with a two-metre edge.
- 04
Coat 4 of 4
Dry & decorate
Pink to pale in about a week. Mist-coat with thinned emulsion, then paint as normal. It is all on the card.
03 / Process
Photo to paint
Five steps, one visit for most rooms, and nothing left to memory.
- 01
Send a photo and the sizes
Length, width and ceiling height, plus one photo in daylight. Tell us if anything needs taking off first.
- 02
Get a fixed price the same day
A number, not a range. If the photo is not enough we come and look, free, usually that week.
- 03
We sheet and tape the room
Floors covered, sockets masked, doorways sealed with dust sheeting.
- 04
Skim, usually in a day
Two coats, trowelled flat and checked with a two-metre straight edge.
- 05
A drying card left on the wall
When to mist-coat, when to paint and what to use, written down so nobody has to remember.
True Level / Drying card / Nº 0412
Do not paint yet
- Room
- Back bedroom
- Skimmed
- Mon 20 Oct
- Mist coat from
- Mon 27 Oct
- Mist coat
- Trade matt, 70 : 30 water
- Avoid
- Heaters on full, vinyl paint
Pink = wet. Even pale = ready. 01823 000000
04 / External render
Outside, spring to autumn
- Through-colouredBlock and new build
- LimeCob, stone, listed
- Mesh & beadsIncluded
- Scaffold towerIncluded
- SeasonApr–Oct only
From, per m²
£60
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Send a photo, get a price
Most rooms we can price from dimensions and a picture. If we need to see it, we come and look for free. We reply the same working day, usually by teatime.
Diary statusw/c 20 Oct free