Plastering in Bashley
Skimming, cracked ceilings, dry lining, extensions and external render across Bashley and BH25. Free site visit, free written itemised quote.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
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Inside, most Bashley work is straightforward: much of the village went up in the eighties and nineties, so the walls are plasterboard on dabs and a tired room needs a skim, not a strip out. Outside is where it pays to ask first, because most of Bashley sits inside the National Park, though the boundary runs through BH25 and the property map settles it. Inside the Park, rendering a wall that is not already rendered needs permission. For the outside walls, see rendering in Bashley.
Bashley houses are mostly modern plasterboard, with a few old solid-walled cottages, and the plastering problems follow from that. A room that has been papered and painted too many times and now needs a flat surface. Cracks along the board joints, or a corner bead that has been knocked and chipped. An extension, an annexe or an outbuilding conversion that needs boarding and skimming from scratch. Render outside that has crazed or gone hollow. Or, in the few old cottages here, plaster that has come away from a solid wall.
We come out, sound the walls and ceilings, and put a written itemised price in front of you with the method on it as well as the number.
The work
Filler on a bare corner never lasts a season
Skimming rooms in the newer houses. The bulk of Bashley is modern, which means plasterboard walls on dot and dab, taped and jointed ceilings, and a thin original skim. After thirty years of paper and paint the surface goes patchy long before it fails.
Preparation, a coat of thinned PVA or a bonding primer where the wall will not suck, then two passes of finish coat off the trowel, and it takes paint properly again. A hollow sound on a dabbed wall is the air gap behind the board, not a fault, and nobody should be selling you a strip out on the strength of it.
Hairline cracks along board joints and popped fixings are the common complaint in houses of this age, and they are movement, not failure. The joint is opened, scrimmed and skimmed. Chipped external corners get the angle bead cut out and replaced, never just filled, and window reveals get a stop bead so the edge has something to hold it. Filler on a bare corner never lasts more than a season.
New rooms, and the ceilings above them. Plots here are generous and plenty of the plastering here is new space, not repair: plasterboard on a stud or on dabs against a blockwork skin, moisture resistant board behind a shower, insulated board where the wall needs it, then tape and joint or a full skim. On a converted stable or garage we look at the wall first, because a building that has never been heated behaves differently once it is. With bungalows at over forty per cent of Bashley, plenty of ceilings sit straight under the loft and the older ones still carry swirled artex. Sound texture is prepared, primed and skimmed flat, heavy or loose texture is overboarded, and nothing gets sanded because artex from before the 2000s can contain asbestos.
Outside it is thin coat silicone and monocouche on the newer houses, sand and cement or pebbledash on the older ones, repaired with a scratch coat and a mesh reinforced basecoat, then primer and topcoat with a bell cast bead at the base. Because this is the National Park, we will also tell you whether what you are asking for is a repair or a change of appearance, which is not the same conversation. A small number of houses in Bashley predate the rest by a century, solid wall with lime plaster on lath, and those want a haired lime backing and a breathable finish rather than gypsum.
How it runs
Plastering inside a nineties house or bungalow
Thomas comes out and taps every wall and ceiling in the room, not just the damaged patch, because blown plaster rarely stops where the crack does. The quote itemises protection, what comes off, boarding, the backing and finish coats, beads, making good, and taking the waste. Stripping, boarding and skimming sit on one quote.
Most Bashley homes are easy to work in: a drive for the van, level entry and room to mix outside. Where a garage or stable is being converted, bare blockwork may need boarding or a bonding coat first. We sheet floors and furniture, keep the room usable where we can, and take the old plaster and board away. If damp or rotten timber appears behind a wall, the job pauses while you look at a photograph and a price.
Plastering inside needs no planning permission, though hacking more than half an outside wall back to the block can bring in Part L. Outside is different, because most of Bashley falls to the New Forest National Park Authority, and in a National Park the right to render a wall without an application is removed. Repairing render that is already there is maintenance; rendering a wall that never had it changes its appearance. A whole elevation can also bring in Approved Document L. Check your address on the National Park Authority interactive property map, and heritage and conservation guidance covers older buildings.
Cost
Board, bonding or skim: what sets the plastering price
Plastering is not priced by the square metre. On a wall, area is the easiest thing to measure and the least useful. What is on the wall. We sound every wall and ceiling with a knuckle first. What answers solid gets a skim; what drums comes off back to the background.
The era. In a nineties house most walls are plasterboard on dabs or skimmed block, and ceilings are plasterboard. Cracks along the board joints need tape or mesh before the skim, or they come back. An older cottage may have lime plaster on brick, which should be repaired in lime.
Conversions. A garage or stable being turned into a room needs insulation, boarding and a full skim, and usually new beads at every opening.
Getting in. A nineties detached with a drive, a bungalow on a paddock plot where the van gets round to the back, and a converted outbuilding each need a different set-up before a bag is opened.
The finish. Beads, making good around sockets and frames, and how much furniture has to move all add time.
Ask other quotes what backing coat they will use and why that one, whether beads and mesh are included, and who takes the waste away.
If it has come down
A ceiling coming down or plaster off in sheets
If a ceiling has dropped or is coming away from the joists, get everyone out of the room. Do not push it back up. If water is coming through, turn off the supply and find the leak first.
Ring us instead of using the form, because the next piece tends to follow within days. On the first visit we bring the loose plaster down safely, find the cause and price the repair. We cover Bashley as well as New Milton. We work Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, on scheduled jobs. When nobody picks up, we ring back as soon as we are free.
Worth knowing
The National Park, not the council, decides your outside finish
Most of Bashley sits inside the New Forest National Park, and there that changes one thing that matters a great deal on this trade. Nationally, cladding or rendering the outside of a house is usually permitted development, so you can do it without asking anybody. Inside a National Park that right is taken away.
Renewing render that is already on the wall is maintenance and you carry on. Rendering a brick elevation that has never been rendered, or swapping to a finish that changes how the house reads from the lane, is a planning matter and it needs an application before the scaffold goes up, not after.
In Bashley, first check your own address rather than your neighbour's: the Park boundary runs through this part of BH25, so two houses a few hundred yards apart can sit under different authorities, and the Authority's property map settles it in a minute.
Second, if you are making an application, get the quote written in materials, not adjectives, naming the system, the basecoat and the colour, because that is what the case officer is assessing and a vague quote turns into a slow decision. We will price both routes where it is a close call, so you can see what waiting for permission is worth against repairing what is already there.
Who you are dealing with
The plasterer who prices the job
Bashley lies about eight and a half miles out from Boscombe, where we are based. We plaster in houses, bungalows and conversions across Bashley, Wootton and Tiptoe, and out to Bransgore and Burley, and planning there goes to the New Forest National Park Authority.
Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719. Thomas Hannen, whose business it is, comes to see the room and puts the price together himself. On Checkatrade, a verified customer has scored us 10 out of 10. The visit costs nothing and neither does the itemised written quote. Before you book a visit in Bashley, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.
Planning at a glance
Do you need planning permission in Bashley?
Most repairs in Bashley need no application at all. What decides whether a change to the outside of your house does is who the council is, whether a conservation area or a listing applies, and whether the place sits in a protected landscape.
| Question | In Bashley |
|---|---|
| Who decides | New Forest National Park Authority is the planning authority for Bashley. New Forest National Park Authority's heritage pages set out what it controls. |
| Conservation area | None covers Bashley, so a like-for-like repair is ordinary maintenance. |
| Listed buildings | Yes, there are listed buildings in and around Bashley. If yours is one, work can need listed building consent. |
| Protected landscape | Inside the New Forest National Park, where design is looked at more closely and permitted development rights are narrower. |
Questions
Questions about plastering in Bashley
We are inside the National Park. Does that limit render?
Being in the National Park changes who decides on render in Bashley and how closely they look. Bashley falls to the New Forest National Park Authority rather than the district council, and design scrutiny applies to anything visible from outside the plot. A repair in the same material is maintenance. A change of finish, texture or colour on a visible elevation is a proposal, and it is judged on how it sits in the landscape. Ask before ordering materials.
Why does our nineties house have taped joints, not plaster?
Because it was dry lined, not wet plastered. Around 39.3% of Bashley went up between 1983 and 2008, with the 1990s the busiest stretch at 18.8%, so boarded walls with filled and taped joints are the norm here. Hairline cracks tend to follow those joints, which tells you the board has moved rather than the wall behind it. A skim over the whole surface removes the joint from the picture.
What scaffold is needed for a single storey render job?
Not much, which is one of the advantages of bungalow country. With 40.3% of Bashley single storey, most elevations are reached from a low lift or a mobile tower, and the sheeting stays manageable in wind. Gables and dormers still need a proper lift with edge protection. We work the access out at the visit, because guessing it is how a quote ends up changing halfway through a job.
Does the Solent nutrient rule apply to our loft conversion?
It applies to new homes or separate letting units, and Bashley sits in the Solent catchment covering Solent Maritime, Solent and Southampton Water, Chichester and Langstone Harbours and Portsmouth Harbour. A loft bedroom in the house you already live in does not engage it. Nor does replastering existing rooms, patching a ceiling or re-rendering the outside. It is dealt with at the planning stage, well before anybody mixes a bag of finish.
Silicone or sand and cement on a Bashley gable?
Silicone over mesh, in almost every case. The exposed elevation faces south west and the village is 4.9km from the coast, so gables catch driven rain across their full height with nothing above to shelter them. Rigid sand and cement has no give in it and opens up at the corners of openings. Colour matters here too, because the National Park will look at how the finish reads from the lane.
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