Plastering in East Boldre
Render on the weather side, walls and ceilings put back inside, and boarding out across East Boldre and the SO42 lanes.
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Plastering in East Boldre usually means putting an internal wall or ceiling back after damp or a leak, and that damp very often starts at the render on the weather side of the building. Both start the same way, by finding out whether what is on the wall now is sound or has let go, because that decides everything else.
East Boldre jobs split into inside and outside work. Something is wrong inside: a ceiling has cracked, a wall sounds hollow, or a corner has gone soft where water has been getting in. Something is wrong outside: the render has crazed, a panel is drummy when you tap it, or there is a dark stripe down a gable after a wet week.
Or nothing is wrong at all and a room is being changed, so a chimney breast is coming out, a stud partition is going in, or an outbuilding is being lined and boarded to become a proper room. We come out, tap it over, and tell you which of those you have got before we talk about money.
The work
Wet walls, blown plaster and outbuildings lined out
Render on the weather side, where it lets water through. Out in East Boldre the wind and rain come across open ground, so render fails on one or two elevations long before the rest. A cracked panel over a sound background is cut back and patched in a scratch coat and matching render coats.
A whole failed elevation goes back as a mesh-reinforced basecoat under a silicone thin coat, a K render or monocouche, or lime on a solid wall that needs to breathe. For the outside walls, see rendering in East Boldre.
Plaster that has been wet goes powdery and blows away from the background. It comes off back to sound material, the wall is cleaned down and prepared, and a backing coat of bonding, browning or hardwall is floated on before the finish coat. We will not skim a wall that is still drying out, whatever the diary says, because it will only blow again. Boarding out an outbuilding, an annexe or a garage so it becomes a usable room is the other half of the year: boards on dot and dab where there is blockwork to fix to, finished in tape and joint for a paint finish or skimmed for a plaster one, and an angle bead on every external corner and reveal.
Working on a plot with no gate. Sand, boards and bagged plaster get covered and shut away here, never left stacked in the open, because stock wanders in off the forest and a pony will have a bag of sand over in a minute. It sounds small and it is the difference between a tidy site and a wasted morning.
How it runs
Plastering a forest cottage or outbuilding, step by step
Thomas taps each wall and ceiling to find the hollow patches, and traces any damp to its source before plaster is mentioned. On the quote you will find preparation and dust sheets, hacking off old plaster, a backing coat, new plasterboard, the beads, a finishing skim and making good, each priced.
Furniture is moved or covered, floors protected and doorways taped against dust. Old solid walls are patched in lime so they keep breathing, while block and board walls take gypsum and a skim. When an outbuilding is being lined and boarded, the insulation and vapour control are agreed before any board goes up. Rubble is bagged and removed daily. If a ceiling is worse once opened up, you get a photo and a price before anything more is done.
Inside, plastering needs no planning permission, and building control only comes in when insulation goes behind a new lining, where Approved Document L sets the standard. Outside is another matter. In a National Park the permitted development right to render or clad a wall is taken away, so rendering a wall that was never rendered needs an application to the Park Authority, not the district council, with a conservation area possibly on top. Start with National Park heritage and conservation guidance, and Planning Portal guidance on external walls gives the general rule.
Cost
Why two rooms of the same size cost differently to plaster
What each wall needs. A sound wall that just wants a skim is a small job next to one hacked off to the brick and built back in a backing coat and a finish coat. Tapping the wall over tells us which, so nobody guesses.
What is in the room. Working round furniture in a lived-in cottage is slower than an empty room. An outbuilding being lined and boarded needs battens, insulation and plasterboard before a skim can go on.
Lime or gypsum. Lime on a solid wall goes on in thinner coats with drying time between them. That adds days, and it stops damp being locked behind a hard finish.
Ceilings. A sagging lath ceiling can be overboarded and skimmed, or brought down, which is messier but lets us see the joists.
Outside. A rendered gable that can only be reached off a scaffold needs a tower or scaffold as its own line, since the work at height rules set what platform is safe.
When comparing, ask whether the price is a skim or a full replaster, whether old walls will get lime or gypsum, and whether beads, dust sheeting and making good are covered.
If it has come down
Plaster falling from a ceiling, or a wall gone wet
A ceiling that is sagging or shedding plaster: clear the room and get what you can out from under it. If water is involved, switch off the lights on that circuit. Then phone us, because the form is too slow for this.
When we arrive, anything loose is brought down, anything that needs it is propped, and we trace the water, whether that is the roof, a tank, or render cracked outside and letting rain in behind. No plaster goes on until the wall has dried. Scheduled plastering runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. Anything urgent, call, and a call we miss is returned as soon as we are able.
Worth knowing
The bedroom wall that faces south-west
Look at the building and you will usually find one elevation doing all the suffering. Around here it faces south-west, into the weather coming off the water a couple of miles away, and it is the wall where the paint blisters and a damp patch shows up inside a bedroom after a wet spell. Replastering that patch only lasts once the wall has stopped wetting through, so the question is what is on the outside of it.
Usually it is a rigid sand and cement render that has hairline cracked and now holds water behind it. That one elevation gets put right first, in a mesh-reinforced basecoat and silicone topcoat that sheds water and lets the wall dry, or in lime on a solid wall. The other three walls can often be left alone, so ask any quote which coats are going on that particular wall, not the house. Then the plaster inside goes back once, and stays.
Who you are dealing with
Plasterers covering Pilley, Bull Hill and Norleywood
Our Boscombe base is a 16.7 mile run away, and we plaster in East Boldre and in Norleywood, Bull Hill, Pilley, Boldre and the SO42 lanes towards Beaulieu. Planning is the National Park's, and building control is New Forest District Council's.
Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, is the company, and Thomas Hannen owns it. He taps the walls and prices the plastering himself. A verified customer scored us 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. Coming to look costs nothing, and neither does the written quote, item by item. Before you book a visit in East Boldre, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.
Planning at a glance
Do you need planning permission in East Boldre?
Most repairs in East Boldre 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 East Boldre |
|---|---|
| Who decides | New Forest National Park Authority is the planning authority for East Boldre. New Forest National Park Authority's heritage pages set out what it controls. |
| Conservation area | Yes: Forest South East Conservation Area. Check whether your street is inside the boundary before changing anything visible. |
| Listed buildings | Yes, there are listed buildings in and around East Boldre. 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 East Boldre
What is the Forest South East conservation area, and are we in it?
The Forest South East conservation area covers this part of the Forest, East Boldre included, and it works on appearance rather than on what you do indoors. The New Forest National Park Authority administers it, so they are the ones to ask and not the district. Like for like repair to a render is maintenance. A change of material, texture or colour is a change of appearance and needs their view first.
We are four kilometres from the water. Does salt reach us?
Enough of it does to matter on the exposed face. East Boldre is 4.2km in from the coast with its weather side to the south west, so a wall gets salt laden rain rather than clean rain and it stays damp for longer between showers. Galvanised bead rusts and bleeds orange through a render before long. Stainless bead and a breathable silicone topcoat is what we specify on that elevation.
Would a silicone system last better than what is on there?
On a wall taking driven rain it generally will, because it goes on over a mesh in a bed that can flex, while sand and cement cannot. Cracks in a rigid render let water in and then hold it there. Inside the Forest South East conservation area the finish still has to look right, so the colour and the texture are chosen to suit the village, not to suit the sprayer.
You are sixteen and a half miles away. How does that work in practice?
We book East Boldre work in blocks, not in half days, because the drive out here is not a five minute one and nobody wants to pay for a van sitting in lanes. That means starting a job and staying on it until it is finished. Thomas Hannen still comes out first to measure and price it, and that visit costs you nothing whether the work goes ahead or not.
When in the year should exterior render be booked here?
Spring through to early autumn for anything on the outside. Render has to be kept off frost while it is green and it wants a few settled days after it goes on, and on a south west facing wall at East Boldre the wind drives rain onto it before it has had the chance. We sheet the scaffold if the weather turns. Booking over winter usually means starting when the nights lift.
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