Plasterer in Blyth
A plasterer who has worked in Blyth since the early years of the business and covers the whole town: the terraces of Cowpen, Cowpen Quay, Newsham and Bebside, the post-war estates, and the newer housing at South Beach. Reskims, float and set on stripped walls, boarding, ceilings and artex, and the replastering that follows damp treatment in the older streets. Fixed quotes after a visit and no travel charges.
Plastering Blyth homes
Blyth's terraces were built for the pit and the port and plastered straight onto brick. A century on, the front rooms often have soft, salty plaster along the bottom metre from old rising damp and cracked, hollow plaster higher up. We treat the damp first, strip what has failed, float and set and then skim. Where the plaster is sound, a reskim brings the room back in a day.
The estates at Isabella, Croft, Wensleydale and Kitty Brewster are post-war housing with artex ceilings and plasterboard walls, and the common jobs are skimming over or overboarding artex, reskimming walls damaged by wallpaper stripping, and ceilings replaced where they have cracked or sagged. Artex is never sanded, because older coatings can contain asbestos.
At South Beach and in the newer developments we board and skim for extensions, garage conversions and refits, and patch after rewires and new plumbing. One team does all of it, the room is cleaned and the rubbish goes with us.
Parts of Blyth we cover
We work across the whole of Blyth and the streets around it, including Cowpen, Newsham, Bebside, South Beach, Kitty Brewster, Isabella, Croft, Wensleydale and Cowpen Quay. There are no travel charges anywhere in Northumberland.
Skimming Blyth homes
The terraces have old plaster that mostly skims well once it has been checked. The exception is the bottom metre of front rooms and halls, where decades of rising damp have left salts that will stain through a new skim; those areas are treated and replastered first, and the rest of the room is skimmed. East-facing walls near the sea get the same check for salt from driven rain.
On the estates the jobs are artex ceilings and walls damaged by wallpaper stripping. Light artex is sealed and skimmed in a day; heavy or cracked ceilings are overboarded and skimmed. We never sand artex, because older coatings can contain asbestos.
At South Beach and in the newer developments we skim plasterboard in extensions and garage conversions and make good after kitchen and bathroom refits, leaving the room as one smooth surface with the rubbish taken away.
How we do plastering
The full process, step by step, and what it involves.
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If a wall or ceiling we plastered is not right, we come back and sort it. We prepare the background properly and use the right plaster for it, which is why that rarely happens.
Plasterer jobs we have written up
A garage room skimmed ready for paint
A converted garage room, 15ft by 7ft, skimmed across up to five walls and ceilings and left ready for painting.
A second job in Blyth after a kitchen we plastered
A customer in Blyth had us back for a second job after we plastered their kitchen, and trusted us to get on with it while they went out.
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Plasterer questions from Blyth
Damp first, so any rising or penetrating damp is treated before new plaster goes on. Then structural work, rewiring and plumbing, because those trades chase walls and lift floors. Plastering comes next, followed by second fix, kitchens, bathrooms and decorating. We can do the damp work and plastering together, and fit around your electrician and plumber.
There is no minimum. A single wall, ceiling or room is worth doing properly, and we quote it as a fixed price after a visit. If other rooms are likely to need work soon, it can be worth combining them to save on setup time, but that is your call. A small job gets the same care as a whole house.
Newer houses move as the timber dries and the building settles, and that shows first along plasterboard joints, especially on ceilings and around door frames. The fix is to open the cracks, scrim them properly and skim, so the joint is reinforced rather than just filled. Filling alone usually cracks again within a year.
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