Plasterers in Sheffield
Plasterers covering all of Sheffield, from a single cracked ceiling to every wall in the house. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens skims, boards and re-plasters as a job on its own or as one stage of a renovation carried out by our own team, with a fixed written price and no travel charge.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
- Rated 5.0 on Google (6 reviews)
- Distance from us
- about sixteen miles — around thirty-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 Sheffield?
Plaster in Sheffield has a lot of history to cope with. The older terraces are built of solid stone or brick with no cavity, and many will still have their original plaster in places, patched over the decades with whatever the owner of the day had to hand. Lath-and-plaster ceilings survive in plenty of them. The interwar semis across the S postcodes are more regular, but their walls have often been papered over for so long that stripping the paper brings part of the surface away with it. And on a hillside plot, the wall that backs onto the slope can be more prone to damp than the rest of the house.
All of that shapes the method, so we look before we quote. Tapping a wall tells us whether it can take a skim or needs taking back; checking a ceiling for sag and loose sections tells us whether overboarding will hold. The result is a fixed written price for the right job rather than the cheapest-sounding one. Sheffield is around thirty-five minutes from our base at Creswell via the M1 or through Eckington and Mosborough, and there is no travel charge anywhere in the city.
What Plastering Do Sheffield Houses Need?
The terraces at Walkley, Crookes, Sharrow and Nether Edge are where plastering is most often a proper repair. Old plaster on a solid wall can lose its key and sound hollow when you knock on it, particularly on a wall that has been damp at some point. Skimming over that only postpones the problem; the lasting answer is to take the loose material back and rebuild it in a backing coat and a finish coat. Where a wall is still taking on moisture, we will tell you the cause needs attention first, because new plaster on a wet wall fails the same way the old one did.
Ceilings in the same houses bring their own decision. A lath-and-plaster ceiling that has cracked or begun to sag can usually be overboarded — new board fixed through into the joists and then skimmed — or taken down and replaced from scratch. Overboarding keeps the dust and debris of the old ceiling out of the room; taking it down can be the better choice when the ceiling is badly bowed or the floor above is coming up anyway. We explain which suits each room, and why.
On the south-eastern side of the city, in the semis and estate housing at Woodhouse, Handsworth, Beighton, Mosborough and towards the Rother Valley, the work is usually more straightforward and more varied: textured ceilings brought flat, rooms skimmed after a rewire, stud walls boarded for a new en-suite, and reveals formed where a wall has come out between kitchen and dining room. Our electricians, plumbers and joiners work for the same firm, so the plastering follows their work at the right moment rather than whenever an outside plasterer is free.
What are we asked for most?
- Blown plaster on solid stone and brick walls taken back and re-plastered in the older terraces
- Lath-and-plaster ceilings overboarded and skimmed, or replaced, depending on their condition
- Textured ceilings flattened and rooms skimmed after rewires in the semis around Handsworth and Beighton
- Small repairs welcome: a single ceiling, a patch after a leak, or a doorway blocked up and made good
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.
Does my wall need a skim, board and skim, or a full re-plaster?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens decides at the survey which of three jobs each Sheffield wall or ceiling needs — a skim over sound plaster, board and skim over a poor surface, or taking it back and re-plastering in two coats — and quotes only for that. They are three different jobs at three different prices, and we say plainly which one applies. If a skim will do, you get a quote for a skim, not for the bigger job.
How long does it take to plaster a room in Sheffield?
A single room typically takes Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens one to two days to plaster in Sheffield, and a whole house one to two weeks, longer where walls are being taken back to the stone or brick. When plastering is part of a bathroom, kitchen or rewire we are carrying out, it happens after the first-fix plumbing and electrics and before the tiling and decorating, with no gap while someone else's diary catches up.
When can I paint new plaster?
Fresh plaster from Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens usually needs five to seven days before painting, and longer in winter or in a solid-walled Sheffield house that is slow to give up its moisture. The first coat should be a thinned mist coat rather than full-strength emulsion. We tell you when each room should be ready for it, so the paint goes onto a surface that will hold it.
Do building regulations apply to re-plastering an outside wall?
They can: under Approved Document L, stripping more than half of an outside wall back to the stone or brick and re-plastering it can count as renovating a thermal element, which may bring a requirement to improve its insulation where that is practical. In a solid-walled Sheffield terrace that is a real consideration, because the front and back walls are often the ones in the worst state. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens tells you at the survey whether your job is near that line, and for addresses in the city it is Sheffield City Council's building control or an approved inspector who would need to know.
What Else Might You Need?
Which Official Guidance Applies?
Where Else Near Sheffield Do We Fit Plastering?
- Killamarsh — about nine miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Eckington — about nine miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Dronfield — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Rotherham — about fourteen miles from Creswell, South Yorkshire
- Dinnington — about eight miles from Creswell, South Yorkshire
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Plastering in Sheffield: Questions We Get Asked
Will you come out for one ceiling or a single wall in Sheffield?
How do I know whether my wall needs skimming or re-plastering?
Can you plaster a damp wall in an old Sheffield terrace?
How much mess does plastering make?
Do you plaster in Crookes, Walkley and Nether Edge as well as the south-east of the city?
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