Plastering and rendering 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.
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 is a skim rather than a strip out. Outside is where it pays to ask first, because this address sits in the National Park and rendering a wall that is not already rendered needs permission here.
People ring us for four or five reasons. 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 rather than failing. 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 rather than failure. The joint is opened, scrimmed and skimmed. Chipped external corners get the angle bead cut out and replaced rather than 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 a lot of our work is new space rather than 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 the village, 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 here 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
From your call to a written price
The site visit costs nothing and the quote is itemised: protection, whatever comes off, boarding, backing coat, finish coat, beads, making good and disposal on separate lines. Plastering inside needs nothing at all. Outside is different in Bashley, because the New Forest National Park Authority is the planning authority rather than the district council, and in a National Park the right to render an outside wall without an application is removed. Repairing render already there is maintenance; rendering a wall that never had it is a change of 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
What decides the price
No rate per square metre, because on a wall the square metres are the easiest thing to measure and the least useful thing to know. We sound every wall and ceiling with a knuckle first: what answers solid gets a skim, what drums comes off back to the background. A nineties detached with a drive, a bungalow on a paddock plot where the van gets round to the back, and a stable or garage being converted are three different jobs before a bag is opened. Ask any quote what the backing coat is and why that one, and who takes the waste away.
If it has come down
A ceiling sagging, or plaster blown off a wall
Ring rather than use the form. A ceiling pulling away from the joists, or plaster coming off a wall in sheets, goes to the front of the queue, because the next piece follows within days. Do not push a sagging ceiling back up. Bashley is a short run for us through New Milton, so a ceiling genuinely moving is usually same day or next.
Worth knowing
The National Park, not the council, decides your outside finish
Bashley sits inside the New Forest National Park, and 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.
Two practical points follow. 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 rather than 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
A local firm you can check
We cover Bashley and BH25, out through New Milton to Bransgore, Sopley and Burley, and the New Forest National Park Authority is the planning authority for this address. Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, which you can look up in a minute. Thomas Hannen's business, and he is the one who comes out to price the job, not a salesman. A verified customer's 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. The visit and the written quote are both free.
Questions
Bashley questions we get asked
We are inside the National Park. Does that limit render?
It changes who decides 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 rather than 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 schemes that add overnight accommodation, and Bashley sits in the Solent catchment covering Solent Maritime, Solent and Southampton Water, Chichester and Langstone Harbours and Portsmouth Harbour. A new bedroom in the roof engages it. Replastering existing rooms, patching a ceiling or re-rendering the outside does not. 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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