Boarding and dry lining
Plasterboarding and dry lining on the Wirral
Stud walls, boarding out extensions and conversions, dot and dab on solid walls, taped and skimmed ready to paint.
- Written quote
- Drying days given up front
- Floors covered first
Plasterboarding and dry lining
Boarding, dry lining, and what the difference is
Plasterboarding is fixing board to a frame: a timber or metal stud wall, a ceiling, or the inside of a new extension. Dry lining is fixing board to an existing solid wall, usually on adhesive dabs, which is where dot and dab gets its name. Both end the same way, with joints taped and the whole thing skimmed, and both are much faster and much less wet than solid plastering.
Most new work on the Wirral is one or the other. An extension or a garage conversion comes to us as a shell and goes out boarded, taped and finished. A through lounge being put back to two rooms is a stud wall. A cold solid wall being lined is dry lining, often with insulated board.
The commercial side is the same trade with different constraints. Units and offices around Bromborough and central Birkenhead are metal stud and board, usually to a date rather than to a standard of finish, and often around somebody still trading. Out of hours access and dust control are worth settling before anybody starts. Often asked about alongside external rendering, k rend and silicone render and render repairs.
Get a price for the boarding
Stud work and dot and dab are priced differently and need different fixings. Which you have decides the method.
Moisture resistant in a bathroom, fire resisting where required, insulated on a cold external wall. The board is a choice, not a default.
On a commercial job this is most of the price. Out of hours, dust control, and what has to be made good before trading resumes.
Done across Birkenhead, Bromborough, Heswall, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Plasterboarding and dry lining on the Wirral
What this job looks like
Example images of the kind of work described, each one labelled as such. They are not photographs of our own jobs and nothing here is borrowed from anybody else's. Our own photographs go in as jobs are finished and customers are happy for us to use them.
Why people use us
Boarded and finished, not boarded and left
The job ends at a flat skimmed surface ready for paint, not at a wall of untaped board.
- Board specified for the room rather than whatever is on the van
- Joints taped and filled, corners beaded
- Skimmed to a paintable finish
- Sockets, switches and services cut in cleanly
Frequently asked questions
Plasterboarding and dry lining: the questions people ask
The ones that come up most. If yours is not here, ring and ask.
What is dot and dab?
Plasterboard fixed to a solid wall on blobs of adhesive rather than on a frame. It is quick, it is dry, and it gives you a flat surface over an uneven wall. It also means the board is held off the brick, so a hollow sound between the dabs is normal rather than a fault.
Can you board over an existing wall?
Usually yes, and it is often the sensible answer on a wall that is uneven or cold. The thing to check first is why the wall is being covered: if it is damp, boarding over it hides the problem rather than solving it.
Do you do the stud work as well as the boarding?
Yes, timber or metal stud, including the opening for a door. What we do not do is anything structural. If a wall is holding something up, that is a different trade and it comes first.
Is boarding cheaper than plastering a solid wall?
Usually, and it is much quicker to dry because there is far less water going into the building. On a new extension it is the normal answer. On an old solid wall it is a choice with consequences, because board on a wall that needs to breathe can cause the same problems gypsum does.
Done across Birkenhead, Bromborough, Heswall, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Tell us what is being boarded
A rough size and what is behind it is enough for a price on boarding, taping and skim.
About Wirral Plastering
How the work is actually organised
Wirral Plastering takes the job as main contractor and puts the labour on it. That means one person quotes it, one person is answerable for it, and you are not chasing three numbers to find out who is coming on Tuesday.
It is worth saying plainly rather than implying a van and a family name, because the way a job is run changes what you can expect from it. What you get is a written scope, a date, and somebody whose problem it is if the date moves.
What we will tell you we are not
Damp proofing is a different trade and so is stone repair, and both come up constantly on Wirral housing. We do the plastering that follows damp work and the lime render that sits around stone, and we will tell you when the thing you are describing needs somebody else first.
Structural work is the same. A crack that runs in a line rather than a map pattern is not a plastering question and filling it is not an answer.
No photographs of our work, and why the site says so
There are no job photographs on this site. The slots are placeholders and they are labelled as placeholders. Nothing here is a stock picture presented as a job and nothing is borrowed from another company's gallery.
Real photographs go in as jobs are finished and customers are happy for us to use them, and not before. The same goes for anything that looks like a customer quote. There is a section built and ready for them, switched off, and it stays that way until there are real ones with permission attached.
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