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DSL Plastering

Plastering and rendering across Monmouthshire.

Walls and ceilings taken back to flat, hard and ready to decorate. Exteriors rendered to shed weather for decades. Floors screeded level and sound. One firm, one price, one number to ring.

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A DSL Plastering team finishing a freshly skimmed ceiling across a large extension, work lights raking across the flat surface

Inside

Plastering and skimming

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.

  • Skimming over existing plaster
  • Full house plastering on new build and extension work
  • Plasterboarding and dry lining
  • Ceilings, including overboarding
  • Artex removal and encapsulation
  • Patch repairs and making good

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.

Outside

Rendering that earns its keep.

Render is the coat your house wears through every Welsh winter. Which one is right depends on how the wall is built, and getting that wrong is expensive to undo.

Silicone thin coat
Flexible, breathable and colour-stable. It copes with slight movement without cracking and stays clean longer than most. The usual choice on modern walls and insulated systems.
Monocouche
Through-coloured, so the colour runs the full depth rather than sitting on the surface. Applied in one pass and never needs painting. Hard-wearing and low maintenance.
Sand and cement
The traditional finish, hard and durable, painted once cured. Still the right answer on plenty of walls, and the most economical of the three.
Lime render
For solid-walled and older property that has to breathe. Softer and slower to apply, but the only sensible option where cement would trap moisture in the wall.
A DSL Plastering renderer applying a scratch coat of sand and cement render to a blockwork wall
  • Silicone thin-coat render
  • Monocouche through-coloured render
  • Traditional sand and cement
  • Lime render on older, solid-wall property
  • Pebble dashing
  • Insulated render systems

Underfoot

Floor screeding

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.

  • Traditional sand and cement screed
  • Machine-applied flowing screed
  • Screeds over underfloor heating
  • Levelling and preparation before flooring
A flowing screed being levelled across a floor with a dappling bar before it sets

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

Before you ring.

We cover Monmouth, Abergavenny, Chepstow, Usk, Raglan and everywhere between.

Can you skim over my existing walls?
Usually yes, provided what is underneath is sound and well stuck to the wall. If the old plaster is blown, hollow or damp, skimming over it just hides the problem for a year. We tap the walls through before quoting and tell you honestly which option you are looking at.
Can you get rid of Artex?
Yes, by removing it or by encapsulating it, which means boarding or skimming over the top to leave a flat surface. Artex applied before the year 2000 can contain asbestos, so it should be tested before anyone starts scraping. We will talk you through the safe route for your ceiling.
Which render should I choose?
Silicone thin-coat is flexible, breathable and holds its colour, so it suits most modern walls. Monocouche is through-coloured and needs no painting. Sand and cement is the traditional, hard-wearing option. On an older solid-walled property the answer is usually lime, because cement traps moisture in a wall that needs to breathe.
How long does a screed take to dry?
A traditional sand and cement screed needs roughly a day per millimetre of thickness for the first 50mm, then longer beyond that, so a typical domestic screed is several weeks before floor coverings go down. Flowing screeds are quicker. Rushing it is the most common cause of failed flooring.

Get a price for your plastering.

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.

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