Patch repairs, bonding, full skims and overboarded ceilings, plus external rendering. Blown plaster comes off rather than getting skimmed over, cracks are cut out and filled properly, beads and reveals are left crisp, and the room comes back to you swept and ready for paint.
Hollow plaster gets hacked back to sound brick. Skimming over a blown wall buys eighteen months and then cracks in exactly the same places.
A crack filled without opening it up comes back through the paint by the next winter. They get raked out, filled and taped where the movement warrants it.
Old ceilings overboarded or taken down and reboarded, joists checked and packed, so the ceiling reads flat under a light instead of showing every joist line.
Splashes off the floors, waste out and walls left in a state a decorator can mist coat straight away rather than spending two days filling.
If the existing plaster is sound, yes, and it is quicker and cheaper. We tap the wall through first: anything hollow is blown and has to come off, because a skim only bonds to what is behind it. Where a third or more of a wall is blown, taking the lot off and replastering is usually better value than patching, and we will tell you which one you have got.
Dust from the prep and splashes from the skim, so it is one of the messier trades. Floors get sheeted, doorways get taped, and waste goes at the end of each day rather than sitting on the landing in bags. Rooms come back swept rather than abandoned.
Yes, and it is a good part of what we do: making good after a chase for cables, a removed radiator, a new opening or a closed up doorway. The trick is feathering the patch far enough out that it does not show as a flat rectangle under a coat of emulsion.
Yes. Where a wall is out by more than a few millimetres or has been hacked back to brick, it gets dubbed out in bonding first and skimmed over that. Skimming straight onto an uneven wall just gives you a smooth uneven wall.
Yes, patch repairs and full elevations in sand and cement or a through coloured system. Blown render is worth dealing with before it starts letting water into the wall behind it, and we will tell you honestly whether a patch will hold or whether the elevation needs doing.
Full and part refurbishments across East London: strip out, alterations, making good, then the finishing trades that turn a shell back into a room.
ServiceFilling, sanding, caulking and cutting in, then two coats laid on properly.
ServiceOld kitchen or bathroom out, walls and floor made good, pipework and wastes reworked for the new layout, then units and sanitaryware fitted, tiled, sealed and tested.
ServiceLaminate, engineered wood, vinyl plank and tiled floors, laid on a subfloor that has actually been prepared.
ServiceDoors hung, skirting and architrave fitted, shelving and storage built in, fitted wardrobes, stud work and flat pack assembled properly.
ServiceLeaks traced and fixed, taps, wastes, radiators and towel rails changed, bathroom pipework reworked, then walls and floors tiled with the layout set out properly.
ServiceCurtain rails and blinds, shower beading, regrouting, filling and touching up, shelves, handles, silicone, small repairs and the ten other jobs that have been on the list since spring.
ServiceGarden maintenance and one off clearances: hedges and shrubs cut back, grass and beds tidied, jet washing, plus garage, shed, yard and flat clearances with the waste loaded and taken away.
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