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Plastering and skimming

Walls and ceilings skimmed smooth, rooms re-plastered, patch repairs and ceilings re-boarded. The finish customers keep describing as smooth as a baby's bottom.

A freshly plastered skylight reveal in a bathroom, pink and smooth and ready to dry

What’s included

  • Skim over existing plaster or artex
  • Full re-plaster of walls and ceilings
  • Plasterboarding and overboarding ceilings
  • Patch repairs after damp, leaks or building work
  • Reveals, boxing-in and awkward corners
  • Dust sheets down, tidy when we leave

CK Damp Specialist started as CK Plastering, and plastering is still the heart of what we do. Every damp job ends with a plasterer, so it made sense to be the plasterer. From a single patch to a whole house, the finish is flat, smooth and ready for paint.

What we plaster

  • Skimming over sound existing plaster or plasterboard to give tired walls a fresh, flat surface.
  • Re-plastering where the old plaster has blown, been hacked off after damp or is beyond saving.
  • Ceilings. Skimming, overboarding and full re-boarding, including after a leak has brought one down.
  • Patch repairs around new windows, after an electrician or plumber has been through, or where a partition wall has come out.
  • Reveals and detail work. Skylights, bay windows, chimney breasts and boxed-in pipework, the fiddly bits that show if they are not right.

How a job goes

We look at the room, agree what needs doing and give you a written price. On the day we sheet up, prepare the surfaces properly, board or bond where needed, then apply the finish coats. We work cleanly, finish when we said we would and tell you exactly when it will be ready to paint.

Old houses and tricky rooms

A lot of our work is in older Teesside and North Yorkshire houses where nothing is square and the walls have had a hundred years of repairs. That is fine. One review sums it up: a whole room patched and skimmed in a really tricky old house.

Questions we get asked

Can you skim over artex?

Usually, yes. Old textured ceilings can be skimmed once they are sealed, or overboarded and skimmed if the surface is in poor condition. We will tell you which at the quote. Artex from before the mid 1980s may contain asbestos, so we check before disturbing it.

How long before I can paint?

New plaster needs to dry out fully, which is normally a week or so depending on the room and the weather. It goes from dark pink to a pale, even colour when it is ready. A mist coat of watered-down emulsion goes on first.

Do you do small jobs?

Yes. Patching a wall after a leak, a single ceiling, a chimney breast or a hallway are all normal jobs for us. You will not be charged a full-day rate for an hour of work.

How much mess is there?

Less than you expect. We sheet up, keep the dust down and clear away everything we bring in. Customers mention the tidiness in reviews more than anything else.

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