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01 Oct

Interior work | Plastering

Liphook - GU30

Enquiry from: Dominic B

Start Date: Immediate

2 x rooms of 16m2 skim walls inc inside cupboards and artex ceilings. removal of coving are you the property owner: owner of the property property type: detached how many rooms are you looking to hav...

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29 Dec

Interior work | Plastering

Liphook - GU30

Enquiry from: Dan K

Start Date: 1 to 3 months

We are buying a new house which has a pebble render on the external walls painted white. We would like to re-render in a smooth finish. We will also be having all internal walls re-skimmed. 4 bedro...

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04 Nov

Ceiling | Artexing

Waterlooville - PO8

Enquiry from: Gerry G

Start Date: Immediate

A small section of ceiling artexed to match existing ceiling

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30 Apr

Interior work | Plastering

Waterlooville - PO8

Enquiry from: Bill H

Start Date: Immediate

i need a ceilng cover in type of artex

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18 Jan

Interior work | Plastering

Godalming - GU8

Enquiry from: Nick H

Start Date: Immediate

we have a good deal of condensation in our bathroom. we have been advised that thermal plastering will solve it so we need a quote for thermal plastering on walls and ceiling in a bathroom please. ar...

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25 Oct

Interior work | Plastering

Haslemere - GU27

Enquiry from: Jonty A

Start Date: Immediate

install approx. 150m of new coving to a refurb house are you the property owner: owner of the property property type: detached how many rooms are you looking to have plastered: 3 rooms are you lookin...

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16 Sep

Interior work | Plastering

Haslemere - GU27

Enquiry from: Ryan S

Start Date: Less than one month

customer made an online enquiry for plastering and confirmed on telephone they would like a call with a plasterer to discuss prices.please call to arrange an appointment to quote. are you the property...

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24 Mar

Interior work | Plastering

Bordon - GU35

Enquiry from: Matt F

Start Date: Immediate

this project is a new build which is to have coving installed throughout the ground floor. kitchen/diner/lounge, hallway, wc, utility, bedroom 3, office. the coving is from plaster ceiling roses onli...

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21 Dec

Interior work | Plastering

Alton - GU34

Enquiry from: Richard L

Start Date: Immediate

Flat plaster 4 ceilings & 2 walls, one wall needs binding as it is crackef Are you the property owner: Owner of the property Property Type: Terrace How many rooms are you looking to have plastered: 4 ...

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14 Oct

Ceiling | Artexing

Godalming - GU8

Enquiry from: William S

Start Date: Immediate

(What looks like) Artex ceiling throughout. Need to qualify if there is asbestos content before deciding how to proceed. Testing primarily required with removal as required. Are you the property owner...

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02 Dec

Interior work | Plastering

Chichester - PO18

Enquiry from: Hugh B

Start Date: Immediate

Small En-Suite bathroom. Are you the property owner: Owner of the property Are you looking for Interior Decorating: No

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14 Apr

Interior work | Plastering

Petersfield - GU31

Enquiry from: Nermen H

Start Date: Immediate

5 bed and 5 bathrooms with celling dry lining and spry painting

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01 Oct

Ceiling | Plasterboard

Alton - GU34

Enquiry from: Roderick W

Start Date: Immediate

What kind of work are you looking to do? Plasterboard Ceiling and Stud Walls More precisely, is it about plasterboard ceiling or stud walls ? Plasterboard Ceiling How many ceilings do you need dry-lin...

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05 Jul

Interior work | Plastering

Alton - GU34

Enquiry from: Russell W

Start Date: Less than one month

Skim 2.35M high ceiling which has been newly-plasterboarded 20m2 (6M X 3.25M) Please provide estimate of cost, time and start date. Thanks

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10 Jun

Interior work | Plastering

Waterlooville - PO8

Enquiry from: Tony B

Start Date: Immediate

3 ceilings plastered/skimmed including a hallway. Approx 34m sq in total.

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29 Aug

Interior work | Plastering

Godalming - GU8

Enquiry from: Henry S

Start Date: 1 to 3 months

Customer visited the myplasteringprices.co.uk site and submitted an enquiry. Property type: Semi detached, Work description: Plastering for new kitchen/diner and utility ground floor extension. Are...

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29 Aug

Ceiling | Plasterboard

Godalming - GU8

Enquiry from: Henry S

Start Date: Immediate

Customer visited the myplasteringprices.co.uk site and submitted an enquiry. Property type: Semi detached, Work description: Plastering for new kitchen/diner and utility ground floor extension.

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09 Sep

Interior work | Plastering

Godalming - GU8

Enquiry from: Peter R

Start Date: Less than one month

Plaster hall following water leak. 1x1 m replace damaged board plaster skim and match artex or skim larger area of approx 9 x 2m over arte to form uniform finish to ceiling Service Date: 14/09/201...

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25 Jul

Interior work | Plastering

Waterlooville - PO8

Enquiry from: John J

Start Date: Immediate

Property type: Detached, Work description: walls ceiling in hallway Please Contact to Appoint

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18 Jun

Interior work | Plastering

Petersfield - GU32

Enquiry from: Robert H

Start Date: Immediate

quote for replastering ceilings 3 bed semi, 2 reception rooms, 2 bathroom and one WC, includes ceiling in hallway Please call to appoint

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How much do Plasterer services cost?

How much do Plasterers cost? Costs for Plasterers in 2024 can be very different depending on the type of work that you require to have performed in your house. 

A plaster is used to serve a number of purposes when applied on a solid surface. It seals rough brickwork or stonework, it provides a smooth surface for the application of paint, the smooth surface offers a clean and wipeable finish, it’s used to repair holes and cracks in existing plasterwork and lots more. With all these benefits, it’s little surprise more and more home and property owners are looking to have their properties plastered. If you’re also considering taking on this task, then you’d probably want to know exactly how much it’ll cost to get this project over the line. In this post, we’re going to give you a good insight into wall plastering costs to help you make the best informed decisions moving forward. Let’s take a look!

As you may have expected, the cost of charged by plasterers is dependent on a number of factors. These factors include the dimension of the room, accessibility of the surface, the condition of the existing plaster as well as the size or reputation of the company. Several plasterer professionals charge a daily rate or a average room size. They know the approximate area that they can cover in a day and charge accordingly. Typically, plastering walls from scratch for small rooms will cost within the range of £600 to £700 with a duration of 2 to 3 days, while mid-sized room should cost in between £650 to £1000 with a completion time from 2 to 4 days. Lastly, for a large room, you can expect to incur about of £1000 to £1500 and can be completed within 4 days.

The table shows the kinds of job that Plasterers usually do and the regular price series of these projects. Some jobs take longer to complete than others so prices do vary by task.

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The average price
of a Plasterer in Liphook is:

£430

Plasterer job Plasterer cost in 2024
Plastering in Liphook £563-£863
Artexing in Liphook £150-£230
Plasterboard ceilings in Liphook £225-£600
Suspended ceilings in Liphook £525-£805
Artex Removal in Liphook £190-£400

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Plasterer FAQs

is artex dangerous?

The short and simple answer to this question is, it depends. Artex surface coating was manufactured with white abestos ( until the mid 1980’s ) in order to strengthen as well as harden it. In other words, this implies that all the ceilings and walls coverings made by Artex Ltd and other manufactures at the time are highly likely to contain asbestos. Although Artex Ltd stopped using asbestos as early as the mid 1980’s, there were still other manufacturers who continued using it until 1999 when the laws and regulations covering the use of asbestos changed in the year 2000.

 

Asbestos, however, is only harmful when disturbed and releases its deadly fibres. For instance, when it’s being sanded and removed as it usually poses no risks when left undisturbed. Since it’s not possible to identify Artex containing asbestos fibres with the naked eye, it’s strongly recommended that you hire the services of a qualified person or company to help determine if you have asbestos in your ceilings or walls especially if your house was constructed before the year 2000. The professionals will be able to advise you on the best course of action as well as if it’s dangerous.

 

To be sure if your Artex contains asbestos, you’ll need to have the artex sampled by an asbestos surveyor. If you’re planning to have a construction or maintenance work done on your property, and the artex is likely to be in the way or disturbed, there’s a need for you to have a refurbishment or demolition asbestos survey done. This will ensure that all the areas that’ll be disturbed by the work is properly tested to determine the presence or otherwise of asbestos. If found, the artex will have to be addressed and either removed or protected before any work can take place.

 

how to plaster a ceiling?

How To Plaster A Ceiling

Generally, plastering is a very tricky and time consuming job which usually require lots of efforts and practice to get right - with that in mind it gets even a lot trickier when it comes to ceiling plastering.

However, when you’re able to acquire the right know-how as well as tools, ceiling plastering can be completed by any confident DIYer enthusiast without the need to call in a professional. However, if you lack the needed confidence to pull off this task, then we’d recommend you get in touch with a trustworthy professional who can guarantee the best results for help. In this guide, we’ll take you through the ceiling plastering process.

You’ll need the following materials to get started: plaster, mixing bucket and paddle, plasterer’s float, plasterer’s towel, bucket trowel, protective gear, bucket of clean water and wide brush.

✓ Prepare the area. When it comes to plastering a ceiling it’s almost unavoidable to leave a mess around and no matter how you do it, your plaster will drop on the floor. Therefore you have put drop sheets on the floor, cover the furniture and put thing you don’t want to get dirty out of the way.

✓ Prepare the ceiling to be plastered. Sand down the uneven patches on the ceiling. Once done, wash the ceiling with a sponge and warm soapy water while also removing all cobwebs as well. Leave the surface to dry once completed.

✓ Mix the plaster or buy a premix plaster. To mix the plaster, simply use equal parts of plaster and water for mixing the plaster,

✓ Plaster the ceiling. Apply a little quantity of plaster to the edge of your trowel and try to spread it in rows to do the job without much hassle. Ensure that the thickness of the coat is thin and even throughout the application. The rough edge of the trowel should be used for the spreading as it’ll help you create scrapes or scratches in the plaster.

✓ Sand the surface

can you plaster over wallpaper?

Can You Plaster Over WallPaper?

If you have wallpaper installed on your wall surface and you’re considering plastering the wall, when you put into consideration the stress involved in removing a wallpaper you may want to consider plastering directly over the wallpaper. This is quite understandable as removing a wallpaper can be quite time consuming and tedious, but plastering directly over wallpaper is a mistake that should never be made. Plastering over wallpaper is in no way a viable option due to the fact that it can only turn out disastrous after a couple of weeks or even days in some cases as the plaster will crack and crumble. As a result, you’ll have to firstly scrape off the wallpaper in order to assist the plaster get to be firmly secured to the wall behind.

When you plaster over a wallpaper, this will make the wallpaper wet and it’ll absorb the moisture. And once the plaster does not have moisture, the only result is for it to crack and start to crumble. Hence, plaster and wallpaper is never a good combination.

Asides from cracking and crumbling, anther issue is that the wallpaper will bubble. You can actually key the wallpaper with the help of a knife and it might look secured for some time, however it’ll eventually crumble and you’d have to scrape off the plaster complete to start all over again. The wallpaper will bubble as the plaster can’t be keyed into a wallpaper and the wallpaper will only work as a barrier between the plaster and the wall.

Overall, plaster always needs to slowly dry off as well as a good and proper surface to grip to. No matter the amount of PVA mix you spread on the wallpaper, it will always remain a barrier. So you’d have to remove the wallpaper completely to get a great result.

what is artex?

Artex simply refers to a surface coating that’s commonly incorporated for interior decorating. Although it’s usually found on ceilings but it can also be used on the walls as well. The surface coating enables the professional plasterer or decorator add both texture as well as patterns to it. Originally, the name “Artex is the trademark of a UK based company known as Artex Ltd. Over time, the Artex name has been used to refer to all textured coatings, although there are other businesses that manufacture and sell identical products.

 

You can find Artex on ceilings as well as walls of mainly residential properties. In the 70’s and 80’s, it was pretty much a trend to have either your wall or ceiling ( can be both ) covered with Artex. The surface coating can be incorporated to create raised, textured swirls as well as patterns on ceiling and walls. There are a number of different patterns that can be made using Artex and some of these includes the following: Broken leather, swirl, stipple, fan or shell as well as knifed plaster. It can also provide just a bobbly raised uneven patter appearance from top to bottom.

 

Artex is main put to use by mainly decorators ( mostly plasterers). This is a skilled job as it’s tedious to create uninformed patterns especially if you don’t know how or where to start. Although the skill of Artex is very much a trade that’s dying rapidly now, but it was pretty much in high demand especially in the 70’s and 80’s. Nowadays, homeowners now prefer smooth plastered finishes over Artex, as they can be easily painted or wallpapered.

how to get artex off walls?

Artex is a water based decorative surface coating is typically incorporated on both walls and ceilings so as to apply a pattern. During the peak of its popularity in the 1970’s, it was considered the height of fashion when it comes to interior wall designs however its major drawback remains the fact that it usually contains asbestos especially if it was manufactured before the laws governing the use of asbestos was changed in the year 2000. And asbestos, as we know it, can be deadly when disturbed and its fibres are inhaled.

 

If you have artex installed in your purchased property and you do not know when the artex walls were done, or perhaps you just want to change the aesthetic design of your home into something more modern and to your personal taste, then you may want to remove the existing artex from your property for good. If this is your wish then you’ve come to the right place.

 

To remove artex from your walls you can choose to do so using the steaming method or through the use of an external product.

 

Using the steaming method, you should know that it’ll be more labour intensive and time consuming. You need a lot of patience moving your steamer slow and steady because if left on a spot for too long can damage the wall behind the coating. Once the artex has been dampened with the steamer, you can then scrape them off with a handheld scraper.

 

A faster solution would be to use an external product to remove your artex.  For example, you can use X-Tex which is a water-based coating remover. All you need to do is paint the substance over your artex wall and leave to dry for about 30 to 60 minutes before peeling away the artex.

How to paint an artex ceiling?

It’s possible to paint your artex ceiling if you want to smarten it up or make it a different colour.

If it’s never been painted before, you’ll need to paint it with a PVA-based solution or water-thinned paint layer to start with. You may want to scrape or sand off any loose or peeling patches beforehand, but only do this if you’re sure that the artex doesn’t contain any asbestos.

Once you’ve done this, follow with two coats of your paint of choice – ideally an emulsion. If your artex ceiling has been painted before then you can paint directly without priming. However, if you’re painting over a particularly bold colour with a lighter one, you might want apply a layer of white paint first.

what thickness plasterboard for ceiling?

Also referred to as drywall, plasterboard is a panel that features an inner layer of gypsum and spread between facer as well as backer paper. It is mostly incorporated in the construction of both interior walls and ceilings. Plasterboard can be made to be humidity resistant, fire resistant as well as noise resistant. Due to these reasons and also the fact that it’s very easy to install and very affordable, plasterboard is a very popular choice when it comes to interior walls and ceilings.

One of the major issues that most homeowners face when fitting plasterboard is the thickness required to make the project a long lasting one. But not to worry, we got you covered! If you’re about to install plasterboard for your ceiling and wondering the thickness that’ll be appropriate, then you’ve come to the right place. In general, the standard plasterboard sheet size is 120 cm in width and within the range of 180 cm to 360 cm in height. These sizes are designed to provide the much needed support to the standard stud spacing which is 160 cm. Depending on the manufacturer, plasterboard can be in four different widths.

Now talking about the thickness, there are two standard thicknesses of plasterboard - 9.5 mm and 12.5 mm. The sizes of plasterboard for ceilings are 9.5 mm or 10 mm. Most individuals tend to assume that the thicker the plasterboard the better, but this is absolutely false. A thicker plasterboard will only stick harder to the ceiling which will make it hard to seal joints if required.

Plasterboards are a great noise insulators which can also reduce disturbances from other activities. As a result, for walls, size of plasterboards that’s considered appropriate for walls is 12.5 mm or 13 mm.

can you plaster over tiles?

Can You Plaster Over Tiles?

Yes, it’s absolutely possible to plaster over tiles but just because is possible doesn’t mean you should. Plastering over tiles is an option but it’s not recommended by experts due to several reasons. A good example is the fact that a tiled environment is in no way a suitable environment that can serve as a good bonding surface for a plaster. For the success of a plastering project, there’s the need for the surface to be able to bond to the PVA base coat. Due to fact that most tiles are slippery in nature and also lack of the ability to be able to absorb moisture, the PVA base coat layer will not be able to bond to the tiled surface, which will ultimately make for a weak surface upon the application of the plaster. Consequently, the plaster will easily flake and fall from the wall.

The inability to drill into the tiled wall surface after plastering is one of the major disadvantages that also arises when you decide to plaster over tiled surfaces. Most tiled surfaces are found in kitchens and bathrooms which are going to need appliances such as sinks, lavatories, kitchen counters and lots more. These appliances are designed to be installed on solid surfaces which would not be an easy task to carry out on tiles knowing there would definitely be great cracks or damages.

The best tip you’ll get if you’re considering to plaster on a tiled surface, is that detaching tiles from a surface can easily be done with a hammer and chisel, and that would save you a host of problems later in the future. However, if you still wish to plaster on your tiled walls, then you best bet would be to get a Blue Grit bonding agent. It works better than PVA and only needs one coat.

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