Plastering costs, hall, stairs, landing + bedrooms
Discussion
We are looking to get our hallway, stairs and landing completely replastered, plus a bedroom, which is approximately 3.5m x 3.5m, and at least two walls in another bedroom. I've outlined in red on the floorplan below to get an idea of size.
A local plasterer has quoted us approx £2k, and thinks it will take him about 2 weeks to do. We are going to get a couple of other quotes, but does this sound about right?
/edited to add : Bedroom 3 has a chimney breast that isn't show on the floorplan I've got. At the moment the rest of the walls we can get away with not doing as it is more of a home office type room, so it has a large desk and various cupboards and storage hiding most of the other walls.
Thanks, Mike
A local plasterer has quoted us approx £2k, and thinks it will take him about 2 weeks to do. We are going to get a couple of other quotes, but does this sound about right?
/edited to add : Bedroom 3 has a chimney breast that isn't show on the floorplan I've got. At the moment the rest of the walls we can get away with not doing as it is more of a home office type room, so it has a large desk and various cupboards and storage hiding most of the other walls.
Thanks, Mike
Edited by mike80 on Saturday 5th January 21:42
I'm always surprised at how much our plasterer can do in a day (and it's top notch!)
Looking at the plan I can't see that being more than a weeks work or less than £1k inc materials
Obviously a lot depends on what the current state is and how much prep / protection he needs to do if the house is furnished etc.
Looking at the plan I can't see that being more than a weeks work or less than £1k inc materials
Obviously a lot depends on what the current state is and how much prep / protection he needs to do if the house is furnished etc.
I can send you details of the guy who did mine (South Leics), I'm sure he'd be up for quoting it - PM me if you want his number. He was more expensive than the other 2 guys I've used and a bit slower, but he was by far the best quality of work. When you've got to look at it for the next however many years it's worth having it done right. The guy who did my stairs was a bit slap dash and there's still bits that annoy me!
I think I paid a grand two years ago for hallway and stairs in the south east.
Your wallpaper stripping makes me nervous though - at the very least the wall is going to need a special primer over it (Thistle BondIt) at £60 a tub, needs 24 hours to dry and everything must be protected - otherwise you risk the paint / paste causing no end of problems and coming off the wall.
Try posting on The Plasterers Forum to get another couple of quotes (just be aware the other plasterer may be on there so keep it professional)
Your wallpaper stripping makes me nervous though - at the very least the wall is going to need a special primer over it (Thistle BondIt) at £60 a tub, needs 24 hours to dry and everything must be protected - otherwise you risk the paint / paste causing no end of problems and coming off the wall.
Try posting on The Plasterers Forum to get another couple of quotes (just be aware the other plasterer may be on there so keep it professional)
I wouldn't worry about the wallpaper stripping, any decent plaster will use a primer & bonding coat but worth asking them what they plan.
The price doesn't seem miles off to me I would say £300 per room plus, its maybe a little high but whats worrying me is the time frame a decent plaster or team of 2 will be working more than 1 room / area at a time, I would expect this to take 5 - 7 working days!
The price doesn't seem miles off to me I would say £300 per room plus, its maybe a little high but whats worrying me is the time frame a decent plaster or team of 2 will be working more than 1 room / area at a time, I would expect this to take 5 - 7 working days!
strath44 said:
I wouldn't worry about the wallpaper stripping, any decent plaster will use a primer & bonding coat but worth asking them what they plan.
The price doesn't seem miles off to me I would say £300 per room plus, its maybe a little high but whats worrying me is the time frame a decent plaster or team of 2 will be working more than 1 room / area at a time, I would expect this to take 5 - 7 working days!
Most of the wallpaper stripping has been done already, we weren't sure what we'd find as the previous owners clearly did a lot of stuff on the cheap, or didn't finish stuff properly. Nothing dangerous or major, just meant everything in the hall and landing looking a bit tired and scruffy, and we've finally got the money to do it! The price doesn't seem miles off to me I would say £300 per room plus, its maybe a little high but whats worrying me is the time frame a decent plaster or team of 2 will be working more than 1 room / area at a time, I would expect this to take 5 - 7 working days!
The plasterer who quoted at the weekend didn't seem bothered by it, so from that point of view it should be fine. As for timescale, he would be working by himself.
If that is is the cost, then that is the cost, it needs doing regardless, but I just want to make sure I'm getting a fair price. Not had to do anything like this before.
Our best plasterer recently retired and he was the best we had ever used and others that we have used since have not been as good.
Ours used to charge around £150 for a ceiling skim over old Artex patterns. (4m x 4m room)
A room including floors and ceiling skim was about £400 and that was wall skim too.
As rule of thumb his room charge didn't vary that much and I'd say over the years he probably did about 10 rooms for us over three houses.
This was home counties (20 miles north of the centre of London)
Ours used to charge around £150 for a ceiling skim over old Artex patterns. (4m x 4m room)
A room including floors and ceiling skim was about £400 and that was wall skim too.
As rule of thumb his room charge didn't vary that much and I'd say over the years he probably did about 10 rooms for us over three houses.
This was home counties (20 miles north of the centre of London)
Yeah so will strip the paper others will not.
We had two plasters for repairing all the chases put in during a major whole house re-wire.
One quoted £1100 for the whole job, inc stripping the paper back.
Other quoted 2x £200/day for a pair pair of them to do it in a day, having had it previously stripped. Might take an additional day.
Decorator is charging £185/day and recons there is a days work or just over, in stripping 6" either side of each chase.
Daniel
We had two plasters for repairing all the chases put in during a major whole house re-wire.
One quoted £1100 for the whole job, inc stripping the paper back.
Other quoted 2x £200/day for a pair pair of them to do it in a day, having had it previously stripped. Might take an additional day.
Decorator is charging £185/day and recons there is a days work or just over, in stripping 6" either side of each chase.
Daniel
I've had two plastering jobs done recently:
1) Skim single wall (circa 10sqm) + patch in around ceilings (where the covering was removed) - £180 inc. materials
He did a very good job and was finished by 1pm.
2) Skim hallway and landing ceilings (circa 23sqm) - £160 inc. materials
The later was done by one of our neighbours who will be coming back to do the rest of the hall and the lounge in a couple of weeks (I hope).
1) Skim single wall (circa 10sqm) + patch in around ceilings (where the covering was removed) - £180 inc. materials
He did a very good job and was finished by 1pm.
2) Skim hallway and landing ceilings (circa 23sqm) - £160 inc. materials
The later was done by one of our neighbours who will be coming back to do the rest of the hall and the lounge in a couple of weeks (I hope).
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