Cost of Skimming Walls

Just moved into a 1940's house that has a concrete type base in th

plaster on the walls. You touch the walls slightly and sometimes th wall will crumble. We were wanting or thinking of having the wall skimmed but had no idea of the average cost. Does anyone know? We ar in Berkshire. The rooms are average size with average size ceilings. There are 5 rooms to do, stairs, front entrance and hall upstairs.

Cheers - Whywaite

-- whywaites

Just moved into a 1940's house that has a concrete type base in th

plaster on the walls. You touch the walls slightly and sometimes th wall will crumble. We were wanting or thinking of having the wall skimmed but had no idea of the average cost. Does anyone know? We ar in Berkshire. The rooms are average size with average size ceilings. There are 5 rooms to do, stairs, front entrance and hall upstairs.

Cheers - Whywaite

-- whywaites

Just moved into a 1940's house that has a concrete type base in th

plaster on the walls. You touch the walls slightly and sometimes th wall will crumble. We were wanting or thinking of having the wall skimmed but had no idea of the average cost. Does anyone know? We ar in Berkshire. The rooms are average size with average size ceilings. There are 5 rooms to do, stairs, front entrance and hall upstairs.

Cheers - Whywaite

-- whywaites

Thats some loud hailer you have there?

Just how many new threads do you have to start with the same post?

any chance you can f*ck diybanter right off, and use the newsgroup as it was intended ?

DIYBanter - 'nuff said ...

Ceilings as well or just walls?

I would guess on 600 - 800 per room if just the walls - another 200 -

Not you again.

In Leeds, I was paying about GBP 300 or so plus materials (say very roughly GBP 50 ish) for a room to be boarded over on the ceiling , a bit of patching or boarding on the walls sometime and all over skimming. This is probably on the cheap side as my plasterer was pretty reasonable on price.

Thanks to those with all the price estimate replies that really ha helped. For the others, SORRY!! My computer was messing up everytim I hit submit so I did not mean to have several posts of the sam thread. Sorry to have bothered your group!!

-- whywaites

These prices seem about twice the correct price but then he didnt mention the size of his rooms.

Yup, looking at them they are a tad high - I was thinking the quote I got for 1.2k was for two rooms - but in fact that not only included ceilings, but also skimming the stairs and landing.

So half may be closer... (I bought a dozen bags of multifinish and taught myself ;-)

Is it terribly hard to skim yourself? I've heard its a skill that yo

learn over the years. I have never done it - just filled in holes her and there when needed.

Thanks -

John Rumm Wrote:

Try it you dont have much to lose, the materials are very cheap. As John Rumm says multifinish is what you want - say 3 bags for a 13' by

I and others have posted various long articles on how to skim. Search back on google for them. It's not difficult, but it really does benefit from being shown how to do it, and being shown what you're doing wrong. That does make it quite a challenge to teach someone using books and articles alone.