Your Local Bacup Specialist For Coving

Priced by the metre plus the profile chosen, since a deep decorative cornice is considerably more work to fit and joint than a plain cove. In Bacup specifically, the biggest variable is the background: intact Victorian stone terraces and mill housing, much of it in a conservation area, built to breathe and sitting high with severe wind-driven rain exposure. That is why Lee quotes off a look or a photo rather than a price list. Quotes are free and there is no call-out charge.

A single room is usually a day, sometimes less for a plain profile in a square room. Older Bacup properties can take a little longer than that because the preparation is heavier, and you will be told which category yours falls into when the quote is given rather than discovering it partway through.

Yes. Stacksteads, Weir, Britannia, Sharneyford, Broadclough are all covered from the same rounds as Bacup, along with the neighbouring towns. LD Plastering works out of Rossendale, so this is a genuine local patch rather than a national firm with a local phone number.

Coving and cornice run along the junction between wall and ceiling, covering the joint and adding a finished detail to the room. LD Plastering fits plain coving and decorative cornice across East Lancashire, including matching original profiles in older Rossendale and Burnley properties where a section has been damaged or lost. Whether it suits your property depends on what is behind the wall, and in Bacup that means intact Victorian stone terraces and mill housing, much of it in a conservation area, built to breathe and sitting high with severe wind-driven rain exposure. Lee will tell you if a different or smaller job would serve you better.

It handles the small seasonal movement that causes most hairline cracking at the wall and ceiling junction, which is the most common place for it in an older house. It will not hide or fix cracking caused by genuine structural movement, and that wants investigating rather than covering.

After the plastering and before the decorating. That order means the plasterer works to a clean junction, the coving beds onto a finished surface, and you are not making good fresh paintwork afterwards.

Often yes. Where a surviving run exists elsewhere in the room or the house, the profile can be taken from it and reproduced so a repaired section follows the original. Where nothing survives to copy, the honest option is choosing the closest available profile and being upfront that it is a close match rather than the original.

Not until the water is stopped. A blown patch behind a downpipe is nearly always the downpipe, and replastering over it hides the stain for a few months before it comes back through. Fix the outside first and the inside repair then lasts.

For internal plastering, no. For anything changing the external appearance, including rendering a previously bare stone elevation, it is worth checking with Rossendale council before committing. Lee will flag it rather than let you find out afterwards.

Yes, and it is regular work here. Sound, thin coatings get sealed and skimmed flat. Thick coatings, or ceilings where the lath and plaster above has moved, are better overboarded first.