Cost of plastering a small room?

[Tiggsy]

I am about to get a "garden office" built - size is 4m X 3m - it comes with walls and ceiling finished in a rather cheap looking plastic (which is not cheap, it's just the inner side of the insulation they use)

Anyway, they will plaster the room - which involves slapping up some thin plasterboard and plastering that - for £1400 inc VAT.

The easy option is to let them do it but am I WAY over on cost there? If a normal cost would be £1000+ I'll take their price for ease, but wouldnt want to discover its a £350 job and I've just blown £1,000 on ease!

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[jeevescat]

Yeap, more like a £350 quid job, we had some rooms done, worked out at about £250 per room.

[astroarcadia]

Just had a room measuring 3.5m x 3.5m skimmed. Four walls, one window, three door reveals and ceiling.

£200 including materials, one day. Gloucesterhsire

[Stu R]

Blimey, some expensive plasterers out there. I pay £200 a day, and a room will normally be dry-lined and skimmed in a day. £600 got pretty much the whole downstairs of my house done, including dry-lining the hall, lower staircase and kitchen.

[dugsud]

astroarcadia said:

Just had a room measuring 3.5m x 3.5m skimmed. Four walls, one window, three door reveals and ceiling.

£200 including materials, one day. Gloucesterhsire

Yup...sounds about right.

[Tiggsy]

cool - thought as much.

[mk1fan]

Only one poster picked up on the room needing drylining before skimming. I'd allow £400 to get the job done. Once the shed is up then get three plasterers around to give you a price.

[Tiggsy]

mk1fan said:

Only one poster picked up on the room needing drylining before skimming. I'd allow £400 to get the job done. Once the shed is up then get three plasterers around to give you a price.

Yep -I've allowed £500 in the budget which covers me some paint to finish it myself!

[Du1point8]

Anyone got any links to these kind of prices and Im looking at plastering, but since its a victorian terrace flat am I right in thinking its a massive task and will need all the old walls out as they havent been touched in years and will probably be old lath and plaster walls.

how much would that be per room for a 13ft by 15ft room including ceiling converted to plasterboard?

[mk1fan]

That's a very messy job. If you're prepared to do the labour of stipping off the old then you'll get a good rate for dryling the stud and ceiling then skimming & plastering throughout.

Old Victorian plaster repairs are effectively a piece of string. Who knows how long it is.

[Du1point8]

mk1fan said:

That's a very messy job. If you're prepared to do the labour of stipping off the old then you'll get a good rate for dryling the stud and ceiling then skimming & plastering throughout.

Old Victorian plaster repairs are effectively a piece of string. Who knows how long it is.

I am prepared to do it room buy room myself (stripping it down to the bare wall) but not sure how much there as it looks a mix and match and I would like to keep some of the exposed brick work if it looks nice.

Plus at the same time I wouldnt mind the electrics being redone (positions of lights and switches only)...

What would be the best course of action to do the following?

Im assuming I cant have flooring down is there anyway to make wood flooring non noise to neighbours? (floor board not entirely level)

Replaster
new lights and switches
underfloor heating or new radiators

Then I can get on with new sash windows.

[mk1fan]

I'd check your lease as there is likely to be a clause that requires you to maintain carpet covering to all rooms - excluding bathroom and kitchen. If you do the demolition work then it simplifies what the trades need to do.

[fatboy b]

We had our lounge done about 3 years ago. 30' X 13' with a bay window, patio doors + 3 other windows, 8 walls in total (2 rooms knocked into one) and the ceiling for £650.