I need some estimates

What Sizes?

What Sizes?

What quantity?

What Sizes?

Haven't got a clue mate, what sizes are they?

In message , BigWallop writes

IME the size of room (unless we are talking big rooms) doesn't make that much difference to the price. Much of the time seems to be taken up with the corners, edges and other fiddly bits. MM has said a 2 bed bungalow, I think we can imagine the sort of place he means.

FWIW my plasterer in Leeds used to end up charging about 300 quid + materials (for just plaster not a lot GBP- 0-30?)) for boarding a ceiling, and reskiming a room (typical 3 bed 1930's semi), with a bit of patching etc. as well. He was pretty cheap though I think.

This was surprisingly cheap when we sort of looked into it (but didn't et round to going ahead) as there is/was some sort of grant system to encourage it.

ISTR it was somewhere around GBP500 ish?

sucks teeth, shakes head and comes up with a figure four times what you expected

1. I had a couple of 1,000 square ft factories completely plastered internally for £3,000 about 5 years ago.
2. No idea, but work at the Buildings Research Laboratory some years ago suggested that they are less important than generally thought. They failed to get water to rise more than an inch or two up a variety of differently constructed walls that were standing in water. Their conclusion was that rising damp is probably a bit of a myth and that people should look for other reasons if they think they have it.
3. I was quoted £700 for a three-bedroom two-storey house about seven years ago.

Colin Bignell

string.piece.length() = between £5000 and £10000 for the lot

YMMV, Al

"nightjar .uk.com>" wrote :-

Beats me this does, we can map the human genome but we cannot say for sure if rising damp does occur !

regarding the OP's question, I paid around £1200 5 yrs ago for dpc and skimming iirc the guy charged me £100 per room for the skimming ( 1930's 3 bed semi )

Regards Jeff

Ah - this is a longed for ancient property with its own soul, lungs and legs ... !

Mary

Say, 2 days per room at £150-£250 per day (depending on location) to reskim. Materials cost is low.

1. Assuming you're living there can you not get a grant off your electricity provider. Getting our 3 bed 1970 semi done for 175 instead of 700 (takes em bloody ages to come out though).

Do you know what a 2-bed bungalow looks like? An average 2-bed bungalow? There are probably a million of 'em dotted around the country!

MM

Thank you, Chris. Some common sense at last.

Ooh! That could work out quite expensive, then. For all the main rooms and hall, like.

That's lower than I thought.

MM

Not bad. Thanks, Jeff.

(I'm trying to work out what a prospective vendor might have paid for this work and how much profit he's expecting to make.)

MM

So around £7,500 all in? Sounds pretty fair.

MM

It very well could be! My, you're on the ball, aren't you!

MM

Looks like it - although 1950s isn't ancient in my book :-)

Even our 1937 house isn't. It doesn't creak or breathe or move despite its having no foundations, being on a steep hill and reputed to be jerry built.

Mary

I got my detached 4-bed house done for that on the same scheme.

So it's true, the Germans were here earlier, reconnoitering.

MM

Yeah, of course I do. But is it a 2 bed with high ceilings, or low? What sizes are the bedroom? Are they the size of a modern house, or the typical 1950's size? Etc. Etc. Etc.

=09I had my three-bed semi done last year, on a similar scheme, cost me=20 about =A3170 too.

=09I subsequently read somewhere that you need to get building control=20 involved before you do this, though the guys that did it - from a well=20 known company - made no mention at all about this point. The initial=20 contact was via a saleswoman in a supermarket - not that I usually stop=20 to pass the time of day with them, but I wanted to have the work done=20 anyway.

--=20 Regards,

Will.

I'm pretty sure almost all councils HEAVILY discount it. I think ours will do it for about £250 IIRC ...