Full Reskimming

Every wall and every ceiling in the space, prepared and skimmed as one job rather than as separate patches. It is the difference between fixing the bits that look worst and ending up with a room where every surface matches.

If the surfaces are genuinely sound apart from one or two spots, patch them. Once you are looking at several patches on a wall, or a ceiling that no longer matches the walls, patching becomes false economy: you pay twice and still see the joins once the paint goes on.

A three-bedroom house is usually around two weeks for the plastering itself, plus drying time before decorating. Lee gives you the room-by-room order at the start so you know which day each space comes back into use.

Most people do. It is worked room by room so you always keep somewhere to sleep, and the kitchen and bathroom are sequenced to stay available. It is dusty and disruptive for a week, but it is liveable, and plenty of Lancashire families do exactly that.

After. Fitting windows disturbs the reveals and almost always means making good around them, so plastering first just means paying to have your new plaster cut into. Same logic applies to rewiring, replumbing and any structural work.

Regularly. A reskim is one of the quickest ways to lift a tired property back to a lettable standard, and turning it round in a week between tenancies is very doable. Landlords with several properties across Rossendale and Burnley are a steady part of the work.

No, and anyone who says it will is selling you a repeat visit. Plaster over damp and the stain comes back through within months. The water has to be stopped first, whether that is guttering, pointing, a leak or ventilation. Lee will tell you what he can see and will not skim over a problem to make it disappear for a season.

Allow a week per room in normal conditions, longer if the weather is cold and the heating is off. Rooms done first will be ready while later ones are still going on, so decorating can usually follow the plastering round the house rather than waiting for everything.

Clear what you can and Lee will work round the rest. Heavy items get moved to the middle of the room and sheeted. Nothing gets left uncovered and nothing gets shifted out of the property without you knowing about it.

Yes, noticeably. Set-up, materials and travel are spread across the whole job instead of repeating on every visit. If you know you want three rooms doing this year, doing them together costs less than three separate bookings.