Plastering
Plastering on the Wirral
Walls brought back to a flat surface you can paint, whether that means a patch, a bonding coat and a skim, or taking the whole thing back to brick.
- Written quote
- Drying days given up front
- Floors covered first
Plastering
What plastering actually involves here
Plastering is three jobs that share a name. There is patching, where sound plaster has gone in one area and the rest is fine. There is bonding and skimming, where the plaster is still gripping the wall but the surface is beyond saving. And there is taking a wall back to brick and starting again, with a render coat and then a finish.
Which one you need is decided by tapping the wall, not by looking at it. Sound plaster rings. Hollow plaster sounds dull and dead, and hollow plaster has lost its grip on the brick behind, so it comes off whatever anybody would prefer. A quote given without that test is a guess, and you find out which way it was guessed when the work starts.
On the Wirral the age of the house decides most of it. Victorian and Edwardian housing is solid wall with lime, interwar is a mix, and anything postwar is usually board. Those want different materials and they are not interchangeable. Often asked about alongside skimming, ceilings and artex removal.
Get a price for the plastering
Lime, gypsum or board, and whether it is still gripping. This is most of the price difference between two quotes for the same room.
A wall going under heavy paper and a wall being painted in a room with raking daylight are different amounts of work. Worth agreeing up front.
Hollow areas come off. Where that is one patch it is cheap, and where it is most of the wall it is a strip, and nothing in between is guesswork.
Done across Bebington, Caldy, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Plastering 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
What you get in the quote
Written, itemised, with the assumptions next to the number so you can see what would change it.
- Which walls are being patched, bonded or stripped
- Working days and drying days given separately
- What happens if more comes off than the tap test suggested
- Floors and fittings covered before anything is opened
Frequently asked questions
Plastering: the questions people ask
The ones that come up most. If yours is not here, ring and ask.
How do I know if my wall needs taking back to brick?
Tap across it with your knuckles. A dull hollow note means the plaster has let go of the brick there. One hollow patch in a sound wall is a patch and a skim. A hollow note in several places usually means the wall is cheaper taken back in one go than patched three times over a decade.
Can you plaster over old plaster?
If it is sound, yes, and that is the usual answer. The surface is stabilised and bonded first and then a finish coat goes over it. If it is hollow, no, because you would be fixing new plaster to something that is already letting go.
How long does a room take?
Walls in an ordinary room are usually a day to lay and then it is drying time. Adding ceilings, or taking anything back to brick, adds days rather than hours. We give you both numbers because the drying is the part that decides when you can decorate.
Will there be a lot of mess?
Plastering is wet and it is dusty at the stripping stage. Floors, stairs and anything left in the room get covered before anything is opened, and waste leaves with us.
Done across Bebington, Caldy, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Tell us what the wall is doing
A photo and a rough size is enough to tell you whether you are looking at a patch, a skim or a strip.
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