Plasterers in Nottingham
Plastering for Nottingham homes: a skim over sound walls, board and skim for new partitions and tired ceilings, and full re-plastering where the old plaster has given up. We take on a single ceiling as readily as a whole house, and plastering is also one stage of every renovation our own team carries out.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
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- Distance from us
- about twenty-two miles — around forty-five minutes by road
- Survey usually within
- a week or so
- Travel charge
- None anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- Trades on the job
- All ours — no subcontractors
How Do We Approach Plastering in Nottingham?
The plastering Nottingham houses need depends heavily on when they were built. The Victorian terraces nearer the centre have solid brick walls, plaster that has been patched many times over, and in plenty of cases ceilings that are still lath and plaster upstairs. Out in the interwar and post-war semis of the northern suburbs, the walls are usually sounder but the ceilings are often textured, and a rewire or a new heating system leaves every room with channels and holes that need making good. Knowing which of those you are dealing with is what makes a quote accurate.
We come to Nottingham from Creswell, around forty-five minutes away, and there is no travel charge anywhere in our thirty-mile radius. We look at and tap the walls before pricing, and the written figure we give you is the figure you pay. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens also keeps plumbing, electrics, tiling and joinery in-house, so plastering that is part of a larger job arrives at the right point in the sequence, after the first fix and before the tiler, rather than when an outside plasterer happens to be free.
What Do We Find on Nottingham Walls and Ceilings?
On a terrace in Sherwood, Forest Fields or Lenton, the common call is about a wall that sounds hollow when you knock on it, or plaster that crumbles once the wallpaper comes off. Solid walls have no cavity to keep moisture out, and old lime or early gypsum plaster that has been damp at some point loses its bond. A skim over that will not last. The loose material comes off back to the brick, and the wall is built up again with a backing coat and a finish coat. Before doing that, we look at why the wall got wet, because re-plastering over a cause that is still there wastes the money.
Upstairs in the same houses, lath-and-plaster ceilings are either overboarded and skimmed or taken down and replaced, and the choice depends on how much they have sagged and what else is happening in the room. Many older terraces also have cellars, and cellar walls below ground level behave differently from the rest of the house; whether plastering is the right finish down there is a question for the survey, not a quick answer on the phone.
In the semis further out, the work is mainly skimming: over textured ceilings that are dated or cracked, over walls left patchy by years of redecorating, and after electrical or heating work. Knock-throughs need the opening, the new reveals and the ceiling line made good so the join disappears. Re-plastering a large part of an outside wall can bring the energy-efficiency side of the Building Regulations into play, and with many Nottingham postcodes falling under Gedling, Rushcliffe or Broxtowe rather than the City, we confirm the authority from the address.
What are we asked for most?
- Blown and crumbling solid walls in the terraces taken back to brick and rebuilt
- Lath-and-plaster ceilings overboarded or replaced, depending on their condition
- Textured ceilings and patchy walls skimmed flat in the interwar and post-war semis
- Making good after rewires, new radiators, knock-throughs and new stud walls
What Does Our Plastering Include?
Every plastering job Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens takes on covers all 10 parts of the work, from strip-out and first fix to making good and the final clean, carried out by one in-house team of seven trades. See the full list of what is included.
How long does new plaster take to dry before painting?
Plaster applied by Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens needs around five to seven days to dry before painting in a heated Nottingham room, and longer in winter or in a cold solid-walled terrace. We plan that drying time into the programme and tell you when each room is ready for a mist coat, so the finish is not spoiled by paint going on too early.
What size of plastering job will you take on?
Any size: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens plasters single ceilings and single rooms in Nottingham, usually in one to two days each, as well as whole-house re-plasters of one to two weeks. Plastering is also a stage in every bathroom, kitchen and refurbishment we carry out, where it is scheduled around the other trades we employ rather than waiting on an outside plasterer.
How do you keep plastering dust out of the rest of the house?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens protects the floors and the route through the house, seals doorways into the rooms not being worked on, and cleans down at the end of every day. Plastering is the messiest trade in the house, and most Nottingham customers stay living at home while it happens, so containing it is part of the job rather than an extra.
Does re-plastering an outside wall need building regulations approval?
It can: Approved Document L treats stripping more than half of an outside wall back to the brick and re-plastering it as renovating a thermal element, and that may require the wall's insulation to be improved where it is practical to do so. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens flags this at the survey when a terrace's front or back wall needs taking back. Within the city boundary the authority is Nottingham City Council's building control, but many Nottingham postcodes fall under Gedling, Rushcliffe or Broxtowe instead, so we confirm which from your address.
What Else Might You Need?
Which Official Guidance Applies?
Where Else Near Nottingham Do We Fit Plastering?
- Mansfield — about nine miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Sutton-in-Ashfield — about twelve miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Hucknall — about sixteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Kirkby-in-Ashfield — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Southwell — about fifteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
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Plastering in Nottingham: Questions We Get Asked
Will you come to Nottingham to skim a single ceiling?
Should a hollow-sounding wall in our Forest Fields terrace be patched or stripped?
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Can the walls in our Nottingham cellar be plastered?
How long does plastering a room take in Nottingham?
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