stubbsy05
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Dining room in Terraced House (12x12)
Skim all walls, and ceiling including materials £350 inc. VAT
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Russ
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by skim im guessing you mean tarting up old plaster and not from brick. get a few other quotes?
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stubbsy05
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
by skim im guessing you mean tarting up old plaster and not from brick. get a few other quotes?
Yeah going over the existing plaster.
Got another quote and this is cheaper. Used the same firm before so I might just go with this!
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RichR
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seems reasonable, Plasterings an art form - when its bad its very bad
http://corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=426014
I was quoted £1250 to rescue the entire upstairs (3 bedrooms, bathroom and landing walls and ceilings) from the mess in the photos in the link above; finally got him down to £1000, but the preperation he used (Thistle-BondIt) was bloody expensive stuff but worth every penny 
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dannymccann
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Give it a go yourself and if its shite then pay the £350 lol
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AK
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why is it needing done?
I find that too many folk just re-plaster/skim walls that are easily repaired with a bit of decent filler and sandpaper.
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dannymccann
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AK makes a good point, my grandad was a builder/plasterer/electrician/plumber the lot (as all blokes his age are) and he re-did my mum and dad's current house before he died, half the rooms didnt need plastering just filling
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Gregor
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Thats a very good price
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Mad Moe
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If you work on about £12-£13/m2 you cant go far wrong
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mattk
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If you try to plaster it yourself I will guarantee you will fuck it up, plastering is absolutly arkward
£350 is a good price
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Tom J
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it really is an art, when i first did it, i had more on the floor than on the walls
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paul.mitchell1984
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a lad i know does it and let me have a blast its harder than it looks lol, he charges 300 per room but thats only when he does a full house, if he does individual rooms it varies, sounds about right though
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Jamescorsa97
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I have just had my front room done 13 x 12 done full skim of all walls for £120 but that was off my dad's mate.
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scaron5188
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thats a good price matey im a labourer with plasterers, doin a lil bit here n there, n sounds gd that!!
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AK
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300 for a room, 500 fot two is normal
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RichR
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My Plasterer has a flat rate of £190 (inclusive of materials) per day, with a day being 8 hours. Dependant on room size, he tends to prep one room on day 1 and final plaster on day 2; with an overlap thereafter, so everyday essentially he preps room 1 and plasters out room 2 and finishes room 3.
Took him 4 days to complete the upstairs of our house, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 landing, 1 airing cupboard; thats all ceilings and walls and full prepping with Thistle Bond-It.
He also made a few extensive repairs before the job due to the poor workmanship of the previous plasterer ^^ see above. He only charged me half a day for that - so total was £855.00 and the jobs perfect.
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Colin
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My old man was a plasterer to trade when he was younger so I get him to do all mine! 
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BigSte
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plastering is soooooo hard....might not look it when you watch a plasterer but its stupidly difficult........ for a room that size, you would prob need 5 or 6 bags of finish at a price of about £4 a bag..... overall the labour charge seems quite reasonable
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jungle
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quote:
Originally posted by AK
why is it needing done?
I find that too many folk just re-plaster/skim walls that are easily repaired with a bit of decent filler and sandpaper.
i'm a painter and tbh thats true  if anything's that bad that it need's plastering we get a plaster in or i go mad with the easyfil 45 and flush it completly!
decent prep make's my life so much easyer
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