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Most single rooms land in the low hundreds. What moves the figure is the size of the room, whether ceilings are included, and the state of what is already on the wall. A room that has been patched three times by three different people is more work than one that has not, which is why Lee quotes off a look or a photo rather than a price list.

A single room including ceilings is usually one to two days. A three-bedroom house is around two weeks for the plastering itself, plus drying time before decorating. On a whole house you get the room-by-room order at the start so you know which day each space comes back into use.

Rossendale, Rawtenstall, Haslingden, Bacup, Burnley, Blackburn, Accrington, Padiham, Nelson, Colne, Darwen, Oswaldtwistle, Great Harwood, Rishton, Church, Clitheroe and Ramsbottom, plus the villages around them. Lee is based in Rossendale, so the valley and the towns immediately around it get the quickest turnaround.

Yes, free and with no obligation. There is no call-out charge for coming to look. For smaller jobs a couple of photos sent over on WhatsApp are usually enough for an honest figure, which saves everybody a trip.

Lee has been a verified Checkatrade member since November 2020, which is 6 years of independently recorded trading, with 69 reviews on the profile. The work goes back further than the profile does, but that is the date anybody can check rather than one that is simply claimed.

Usually yes. The peaks come off, the surface is sealed with a bonding primer and it is skimmed flat. Where the coating is thick, badly cracked, or the ceiling above has started to move, overboarding underneath is the honest answer, because a skim is only ever as good as what it is stuck to.

Four to seven days for a normal room, longer if it is cold or the heating is off. It goes from dark pink to an even pale tone when it is ready. The first coat must be a thinned mist coat, or the porous plaster drinks it unevenly and the paint peels at the edges within a year.

No. Nearly every job is done around people living normally in the house. It is worked a room at a time so you only ever lose one room at once, everything gets sheeted before a bag is opened, and the debris goes at the end of the day rather than piling up in your hallway.

Yes, and it happens regularly. Where a wall genuinely only needs a patch rather than a full skim, that is what gets recommended. Where a damp patch is coming from a gutter or failed pointing rather than the wall itself, you will be told to fix that first rather than sold a job that hides it for one season.

Yes, and it removes the usual wait for a decorator to fit you in. It also means the fresh plaster gets its mist coat done properly, which is the step most often skipped when new plaster is painted by someone who has not done it before.