Tier 2 coverage, Merseyside
Plasterer in Greasby
Postwar and later estate housing, which means plasterboard, dot and dab, and flatness rather than restoration.
- Written quote
- Drying days given up front
- Floors covered first
Plastering and skimming
Greasby is mostly postwar and later, and that changes the job entirely. These are cavity walls with plasterboard rather than solid walls with lime, so there is no breathability question and no lath. What there is instead is dot and dab board, taped joints that have moved, and surfaces that have had a lot of filler over the years. The work is making it flat and keeping it flat.
Plasterboarding and dry lining
Estate houses get altered more than older ones: a stud wall in to make a fourth bedroom, a garage brought into the house, a through lounge put back to two rooms. That is boarding, taping and skimming work, and it is the most common new work request here.
Ceilings
Plasterboard ceilings, frequently with artex on the ones that have not been touched since the eighties. Those are either bonded and skimmed or overboarded depending on how deep the pattern is.
Artex removal
Common across this housing and straightforward to deal with, with one condition: artex of a certain age can contain asbestos fibres, so it is covered rather than scraped unless it has been tested. That is not a sales line, it is the reason over-skimming is usually the right answer.
What Greasby asks for most
Plasterboarding and dry lining in Greasby
Stud walls, garage conversions and through lounges.
Read moreArtex removal in Greasby
Eighties ceilings covered rather than scraped.
Read moreSkimming in Greasby
Dot and dab walls brought back flat.
Read moreCeilings in Greasby
Plasterboard ceilings re-skimmed.
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Questions from Greasby
My walls sound hollow but the house is modern. Is that a problem?
Usually not. On dot and dab the board is held off the brick on adhesive dabs, so a hollow note between the dabs is how it is built rather than a fault. What matters is whether the board itself is sound and whether the joints have moved.
Is artex on my ceiling dangerous?
Artex made before the mid nineteen eighties can contain asbestos fibres, which are only a risk if they are made airborne. That is exactly why the usual answer is to cover it, by bonding and skimming or by overboarding, rather than scraping or sanding it. If you want to know for certain what yours is, it has to be tested by someone who does that.
Other areas covered
Twelve towns across the peninsula. The pages are not the same page with the name swapped: what is built in a place decides what the plastering job is, and a Birkenhead terrace and a Greasby estate semi are not the same job.
Across the Wirral peninsula
The west side and the coast
Get a price for a job in Greasby
Send a photo and a rough size and you will get a straight answer about whether it is a patch, a skim or a strip.
Get in touch
Tell us what the wall or ceiling is doing and roughly how much of it there is. A photograph on the form answers half the questions before anybody rings you back.
- Phone0151 453 8836
- Emailcontact@wirralplastering.com
- WhatsAppSend us a photo of the job
- Based inWirral, Merseyside
- HoursMon to Fri 8 to 6, Sat 8 to 2, closed Sunday