Plasterer in Washington
We plaster across all of Washington's villages, from Concord and Oxclose to Fatfield, Columbia, Biddick, Glebe, Blackfell and Barmston, and the older homes of Washington Village. Most of the town was built between the 1960s and 80s, so the work is largely artex ceilings, reskims over tired plasterboard, boarding and skimming after refits and extensions, and ceilings that have cracked along their joints. Fixed quotes, no travel charges, a finish ready for a mist coat.
Plastering Washington homes
Artex is the Washington ceiling. Almost every house of the new town era had it, and forty or fifty years on it is yellowed, cracked or simply dated. Light artex is sealed and skimmed in a day; heavy swirls and cracked ceilings are overboarded with new plasterboard and skimmed. We never sand artex because coatings from before the mid 1980s can contain asbestos, and we tell you which approach your ceiling needs on the quote visit.
Walls in the villages are mostly plasterboard on timber or block, and the common damage is from wallpaper stripping, old filler, and board joints cracking as the house moves. A reskim with scrim across the joints and two coats of multi-finish brings them back flat and smooth. Where boards have been damaged by water or are soft, we replace them rather than skim over them.
Washington's extensions, garage conversions and loft rooms keep us busy with new boarding and skimming, as do the kitchen and bathroom refits that leave bare block and patched walls. Washington Village and Fatfield's older stone homes need the float and set approach instead, and we do both.
Parts of Washington we cover
We work across the whole of Washington and the streets around it, including Concord, Oxclose, Fatfield, Columbia, Biddick, Glebe, Barmston, Blackfell, Harraton, Usworth, Springwell, Washington Village, Donwell, Albany and Lambton. There are no travel charges anywhere in City of Sunderland.
Skimming Washington homes
Nearly every 1960s to 80s house in Concord, Oxclose, Columbia, Biddick, Glebe and Blackfell has artex somewhere, and getting rid of it is the most common call we get from the town. Light patterns are sealed with the right primer and skimmed in a day. Heavy swirls, stipples and ceilings that have cracked along the board joints are overboarded with new plasterboard and skimmed. We never sand artex, because coatings from before the mid 1980s can contain asbestos.
Plasterboard walls that have been stripped with a steamer, patched with filler and papered again a few times are rarely flat. A reskim with scrim across the joints and any cracks, and two coats of multi-finish, puts them right. Boards that are soft from an old leak are replaced rather than skimmed over.
Washington Village and Fatfield's older cottages have solid walls with lime or old gypsum plaster, which we check for damp and salts before skimming, and treat first where they are found.
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 Washington
Yes, and it is usually the better way. We work room by room in an order you agree, so you can keep living in the house. Light artex is sealed and skimmed and heavy artex is overboarded, and we tell you which each ceiling needs. Doing the whole house together keeps the finish consistent and saves setting up several times.
It can. Timber-framed houses are lined with plasterboard rather than plastered onto masonry, so the work is reboarding and skimming rather than float and set. We check how the walls are built before we quote, keep any vapour barrier behind the boards intact, and make sure fixings go into the studs.
Often, yes. Years of filled holes, patched cracks and wallpaper residue never paint well, even after sanding. A full skim gives you one consistent surface. If only a wall or two is bad, we can skim just those. We tell you on the visit what will make the most difference for the money.
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