Plastering and Skimming For Great Harwood Homes

Most single rooms land in the low hundreds. The size of the room, the state of the background and whether ceilings are included move the number, which is why Lee quotes off a look or a photo rather than a price list. In Great Harwood specifically, the biggest variable is the background: older solid-walled stone terraces and cottages with inconsistent backgrounds, walls carrying a slight roll, and a good deal of original coving and cornice. 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 typical single room is a one-day job, two if ceilings are included. Older Great Harwood 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. Rishton, Clayton-le-Moors, Whalley, Wilpshire, Billington are all covered from the same rounds as Great Harwood, 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.

LD Plastering skims walls and ceilings across Rossendale and East Lancashire, taking tired, patched or artexed surfaces back to a flat, hard finish ready for paint. Lee prepares and primes the background, sets the beads, then lays on and trowels up two coats of finish plaster. Most single rooms are done in a day. Whether it suits your property depends on what is behind the wall, and in Great Harwood that means older solid-walled stone terraces and cottages with inconsistent backgrounds, walls carrying a slight roll, and a good deal of original coving and cornice. Lee will tell you if a different or smaller job would serve you better.

Skimming is the thin finish coat, usually two or three millimetres, laid over a background that is already sound and flat. Full plastering means building the wall back up first with a backing coat before that finish goes on. Most jobs in occupied homes are skims. Lee will tell you which one your wall actually needs when he looks at it.

Usually yes. The peaks get knocked off, the surface is sealed with a bonding primer and then it is skimmed flat. Where the artex is thick, badly cracked or already parting from the ceiling, overboarding first is the honest answer, because a skim is only ever as sound as what it is stuck to.

It needs to come off, but you do not have to be the one to do it. If it is already stripped that saves time and cost. If not, Lee will price the stripping in. What is not an option is skimming over paper, because the paste behind it lets go and takes the new plaster with it.

Usually, where a surviving run exists somewhere in the room or the house to take the profile from. Where nothing survives to copy, the honest option is the nearest available profile, and Lee will tell you that before it goes up rather than after.

Not if it is matched into the wall that is actually there. Older Great Harwood walls carry a roll, and following it is what makes a patch vanish. Repairs worked to a theoretical flat plane are exactly the ones that show up as a shadow line under low light.

Single rooms are typically in the low hundreds, with older property costing a little more because of the preparation. Coving is priced by the metre plus the profile. Quotes are free with no call-out charge.