Hi folks
Although I have had a go at plastering to patch up my lounge, I don't know too much about it, so thought it best to get a real plasterer in to finish off the job, by skimming the room properly! My other half said she had a recommended plasterer she could ask about it, but I was surprised when the quote came in at over £700. I thought it would be a fair bit less than that: am I being a bit stingey!!?
The details are: all the walls and ceiling have been prepared by stripping them back to bare plaster, and so now all walls and the ceiling need to be primed and skimmed.
Basic room measurements are:
Room height: 2.55m
Total room length: 7.2m
Room width: 3.5m across, with room narrowing to 2.7m for final 2.1m of the room’s length – this adds one vertical corner edge that needs an angle bead.
Additional features of room:
1) Chimney wall with fireplace along centre of one long wall, emerging 0.3m into the room – this adds two edges and angle beads.
2) Two doors in the opposite long wall.
3) Semi-bay window in one short wall, with one large and one small window, adding 4 more angle beads.
4) Patio door (1.8m x 2m) in the opposite short wall, the recessing of which adds 1 vertical corner edge and angle bead.
That makes 8 corners that need beading altogether. The thing that surprise me was: the plasterer said that the job would be expensive because all the existing plaster at the corners would need chopping back to the brickwork, to replace the wooden dowels that form the corners at the moment, in order to put in all the new metal beads. I thought he'd just be able to stick the new beads over the existing corners, like the last time I had some skimming done (which was a good job done very cheaply by a plasterer I knew, but he's moved away now).
So really I need to know which is the best way to get the angle beads put in, so I can ask for a quote using the right method. Are there different types of beads that make for better corners, less cracking, that sort of thing? I thought I'd try and check about this before I get another quote in.
Any advice gratefully received!
Regards Paul
Although I have had a go at plastering to patch up my lounge, I don't know too much about it, so thought it best to get a real plasterer in to finish off the job, by skimming the room properly! My other half said she had a recommended plasterer she could ask about it, but I was surprised when the quote came in at over £700. I thought it would be a fair bit less than that: am I being a bit stingey!!?
The details are: all the walls and ceiling have been prepared by stripping them back to bare plaster, and so now all walls and the ceiling need to be primed and skimmed.
Basic room measurements are:
Room height: 2.55m
Total room length: 7.2m
Room width: 3.5m across, with room narrowing to 2.7m for final 2.1m of the room’s length – this adds one vertical corner edge that needs an angle bead.
Additional features of room:
1) Chimney wall with fireplace along centre of one long wall, emerging 0.3m into the room – this adds two edges and angle beads.
2) Two doors in the opposite long wall.
3) Semi-bay window in one short wall, with one large and one small window, adding 4 more angle beads.
4) Patio door (1.8m x 2m) in the opposite short wall, the recessing of which adds 1 vertical corner edge and angle bead.
That makes 8 corners that need beading altogether. The thing that surprise me was: the plasterer said that the job would be expensive because all the existing plaster at the corners would need chopping back to the brickwork, to replace the wooden dowels that form the corners at the moment, in order to put in all the new metal beads. I thought he'd just be able to stick the new beads over the existing corners, like the last time I had some skimming done (which was a good job done very cheaply by a plasterer I knew, but he's moved away now).
So really I need to know which is the best way to get the angle beads put in, so I can ask for a quote using the right method. Are there different types of beads that make for better corners, less cracking, that sort of thing? I thought I'd try and check about this before I get another quote in.
Any advice gratefully received!
Regards Paul
Though if the plasterers who do it for a living want to contradict me on this please feel free.
s still no reply as to how many plasterers have customers asking to examine their work.................................
I then get a bag of nails out and fasten the 8x4 to the wall.