My daughter has just bought a small terraced house in Chatham, Kent and one of the jobs she wants done is to have a skim coat of plaster applied to her artexed lounge walls - believe me, it's hideous.
She has had one quote so far of over £1000 which seems very high for a room measuring barely 12 feet by 10 feet. Has anyone any views on what is a reasonable price for the area.
Adrian
Thats no reasonable price for any area, IMHO.
for an average sized room I'd say £400to£500
get her to ask how long the job will take then get her to ask what the plasterers day rate is. I recon it's a 2 day job, tops, and that makes a fair price of £250 MAXIMUM (inc bacon butties & tea)
RT
I presume thats just a labour price?
Maybe you should move to Kent.
£125 per day for a plasterer??? Where! Give his number NOW.
ROFL at your sig :)
no.
I have 2 plasterers that do £125/day, Matt & Jason take a bow !
do they really charge you more than that ? :D
p.s. f*ck kent, it's chock full of shandy drinking southern jessies.
RT
I suppose really it's a case of...There's plasteres and You have plasteres.
Phone numbers please. I'll offer them double that.
YES
Use a steam wall paper stripper to remove the artex or scrape it off with a blade.
Heh! you ever tried removing that stuff? and she does have four walls of it.
Probably a day's work for a plasterer and a mate. Last pair I employed charged £300 for the day.
As it happens.... When we bought this house pretty much every wall and ceiling was rough artexed. Bit by bit I removed it all using an Earlex steam stripper. The ceilings are the worst.
I reckon I could do a standard sized room (walls that is, not the ceinling as well) in a weekend, as long as it was completely clear of furniture and carpet.
Mind you, the clearing up afterwards is a pig of a job and if you want to paint the walls rather than wallpapering them you have to spend time sanding down the surfaces.
So all in all plastering them is the easiest solution, woundn't you agree. :-)
Easiest? God YES! We just couldn't afford it :(
All the more reason you should try your hand at plastering.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
My favourite is a power planer with blunt carbide blades! Round off the ends of the blades slightly. Bit dusty!
Regards Capitol
Ooh! Me lungs hurt.
They will on early artex (up to about 1983) It contained asbestos until about then.
Why'd you think I said it, I would never scrape of Artex because of this reason. If you don't know it's age then plaster it.
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