Walls and ceilings taken back to flat, hard and ready to decorate. Whole houses, single rooms, and floors screeded level underneath them. One firm, one price, one number to ring.
Inside
A skim coat is only as good as what is under it. We tap the walls through before quoting, tell you what we find, and price the job that will actually last rather than the one that looks cheapest on paper.
New builds and extensions get boarded and skimmed throughout. Older houses more often need patching, reinforcing and a full skim to bring everything back to one plane. Both are ordinary work for us, and neither should leave your house full of dust for a fortnight.
Three routes
Usually, and it is the cheapest and quickest answer when it is true. Sometimes it is not, and saying so up front is the difference between a wall that lasts and one you pay for twice.
The existing plaster is sound, well stuck and flat enough to work with. Tired, patched and painted-over walls usually fall here.
Surfaces prepared and sealed, then two coats of finish plaster worked up to a flat, hard face ready for a mist coat.
The wall or ceiling is out of true, cracked through, or carrying Artex that is better left undisturbed than scraped off.
Plasterboard fixed over the top to bring everything back to one plane, joints taped and the whole lot skimmed as one surface.
The plaster is blown, hollow or holding damp. Skimming over this hides the problem for about a year and then it comes back through.
Old plaster off, the wall inspected and made good, then floated and skimmed, or boarded out, depending on what is behind it.
Underfoot
Screed is the layer nobody sees and everybody notices when it is wrong. Out of level by a few millimetres and your tiles lip, your boards creak, and your underfloor heating never quite performs.
Drying time is the part people underestimate. We will give you a realistic date for laying floor coverings, not an optimistic one, because pulling up failed flooring costs far more than waiting did.
Common questions
We cover Monmouth, Abergavenny, Chepstow, Usk, Raglan and everywhere between.
Working on the outside of the house instead? See rendering, or heritage and lime work for period and listed property.
Send over the rooms, the rough sizes and when you want it done. We will come and look, then give you a fixed price in writing.
