Rendering & Plastering in Bishopthorpe

Plastering covers a wide range of interior and exterior finishing work — from full room re-plasters and skim coats over existing surfaces to patch repairs, floating and setting, and lime plaster work on period properties.

Ceiling plastering is one of the more demanding plastering tasks — working overhead, holding wet plaster to a horizontal surface and achieving a flat, smooth finish that shows every imperfection under raking light.

Bathroom plastering requires different materials and greater care than plastering in dry rooms.

Skimming is a thin finish coat of plaster — typically 2–3mm — applied over an existing surface to produce a smooth, even base for decoration.

Plaster repairs address localised failures in existing plaster — cracked, hollow-sounding or damaged sections that need cutting out and re-plastering without disturbing the rest of the surface.

Old ceilings are one of the most common domestic plastering jobs — and the decision about what to do with them has a big impact on cost, disruption and the quality of the finished result.

Artex is a textured coating applied to ceilings and walls in UK homes between roughly the 1950s and early 2000s.

Post-rewire plastering covers the making-good of all plasterwork disturbed during an electrical rewire — chased channels in walls and ceilings for new cables, back-box recesses, ceiling penetrations for new lighting circuits and consumer unit locations.