Walls and ceilings done flat and done once.

It is priced by what is coming off rather than by the square metre alone. A sound wall that needs bonding and a skim is the cheap end. A wall taken back to brick, rendered and skimmed is several times that for the same area. Ceilings cost more than walls because of the angle, and lime work costs more again because it goes on in coats that each have to set. We give you the number in writing with the assumptions next to it, so you can see which of those you are buying.

It needs to be dry all the way through, not just dry to touch, and that is usually several days to a few weeks depending on thickness, the time of year and how much air is moving through the room. Fresh plaster goes from dark patches to an even pale pink when it is there. The first coat should be a watered down mist coat, because full strength emulsion on new plaster sits on the surface and peels.

Both. A single ceiling, a patch and skim, or one room are all normal work. The one thing worth knowing is that getting set up costs much the same whatever the size, so one room is rarely a tenth of the price of ten.

No, and we would rather lose the job than do it. New plaster on an untreated damp wall blows again and the salts come through the new finish. Damp treatment is a different trade. Once somebody has done it and the wall has dried, the replastering is ours and it goes on a render coat with a salt retardant rather than straight onto brick.

Usually yes, if it is sound and the pattern is not too deep. It is bonded and then skimmed. Where the pattern is heavy, overboarding gives a better flat. Artex made before the mid nineteen eighties can contain asbestos fibres, which is exactly why covering it is the normal answer rather than scraping or sanding.

Floors, stairs and anything staying in the room get covered before anything is opened. Waste goes with us rather than sitting in the front garden until the weekend.

Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Bromborough, Heswall, West Kirby, Hoylake, Caldy, Greasby, Irby, Meols and Moreton.

Damp proofing, stone repair and structural work are other trades, and we will tell you that rather than take the job and improvise. We do the plastering and rendering, including the replastering that follows somebody else's damp work.