Plastering in Everton
Ceilings, walls, dry lining and coastal render across Everton, Hordle and the SO41 villages. We look properly, then price it in writing.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
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In Everton the plastering is more often ceilings than walls. A lot of the houses here are single storey, so every ceiling in the place sits straight under the roof, and a stain, a sag or a hairline map of cracks turns up in the room you are sitting in, not a spare bedroom nobody uses.
Everton jobs usually start with a marked ceiling or a stripped wall. A ceiling has marked or dropped and you want to know whether it is coming down or just needs making good. A wall has been stripped of paper, come up patchy and rough, and you want it flat and ready to paint, not filled in fifty places.
Or the outside is looking tired, the render has hairline cracks in it and a wall is showing damp inside after the wind has been in the south-west for a week. We come out, tap the walls and ceilings over, get the loft hatch open where the ceiling is involved, and tell you what is actually wrong before anybody talks about a price.
The work
Ceilings take what upstairs takes elsewhere
Ceilings under the loft. Bungalows are the common house here, so every ceiling sits under the roof and under the loft and takes the punishment that upstairs takes elsewhere. A ceiling with fine cracks over a sound background is prepared and re-skimmed in a day. One sagging away from the joists, or soaked by a tank or a slipped tile, comes down and goes back in plasterboard, taped at the board edges, then a skim over the lot.
Artex and textured coatings. Plenty of ceilings in the post-war bungalows in Everton still carry the swirled coating they were built with. Flat and stuck fast, we skim straight over it. Deep peaks get overboarded and the new board skimmed. It never gets sanded, because a coating of that age can contain asbestos.
A wall that has lost its paper and its patience gets prepared, PVA'd where it is porous and given two coats of finish plaster with a trowel. Where the old coat is blown and hollow it comes off instead, and a backing coat of bonding or hardwall is floated flat before the finish coat. Blockwork drying out after a leak gets left alone until it is dry, not skimmed to suit a diary. New plaster wants three to seven days before a mist coat goes on, and longer in a cold room.
Anything built here from the eighties on is likely to be dry lining, not solid plaster, so we patch it the way it was built and put in stud partitions where a long room is split or a bungalow gains an en suite. Sloping ceilings, dormer cheeks and garage conversions get boarded and skimmed, with an angle bead on every external corner and a stop bead where the plaster stops against a frame or a window board, so the new room matches the rest of the house and does not announce itself.
Two and a half kilometres from the water, the south-west elevation gets the salt and the driven rain and it goes first. Cracked panels over a sound background are cut back and patched to match the texture beside them, whether that is sand and cement or pebbledash. Where a whole wall has gone hollow it comes off and goes back on a mesh-reinforced basecoat under a silicone thin coat, or a monocouche where the colour is carried through the material, with a bell cast bead at the base. For the outside walls, see rendering in Everton.
How it runs
Plastering a room or a wall, from dust sheets to dry
Thomas comes out and taps over the walls and ceilings himself, because hollow plaster sounds different and that tells him whether a skim will do or it needs hacking off. His quote lists protection first, then stripping out, new plasterboard or a backing coat, the skim or finish coat, beads, and making good. One company sees it from start to finish.
In a bungalow every room is on one level, so ceilings are reached from trestles or a hop-up and no materials go up a stair. We sheet the floors, mask sockets and windows, and keep dust behind closed doors. Old plaster is bagged and leaves with us, and the room is swept at the end of each day. If a ceiling turns out to be old lath or a wall has damp behind it, we photograph it and give you a price before carrying on.
Everton sits outside the National Park and has no conservation area, so re-rendering is normally permitted development if the finish is similar to what is around it. Planning Portal guidance on external walls sets out the exceptions. A straight re-render is not building control work, but adding insulation behind it is, and once more than half a wall is renewed regulation 23 asks whether it should be upgraded, with Approved Document L setting the standard.
Cost
Skim, re-plaster or new board: what the price hangs on
We do not work to a rate per square metre. The same wall can need a skim or a full re-plaster, and only tapping it over tells you which.
What is on the wall now. A wall that just needs a skim costs far less than one where the old plaster is hacked off and a backing coat and finish coat go back on. Some older houses in Everton still have lath and lime ceilings, and those are usually replaced with plasterboard rather than patched.
How the house is built. The post-war bungalows are mostly wet plastered on block or brick. Houses from the 1990s are often dot and dab plasterboard throughout, which is repaired in a different way.
Reach. Inside a bungalow, every ceiling comes off trestles. Outside, render on a seaward gable needs a tower or a scaffold, priced on its own line, because the work at height rules decide the platform.
Damp. Plaster that has blown from damp will blow again unless the cause is fixed first, whether that is a gutter, a failed render or rising damp. We tell you that before we plaster over it.
When you compare quotes, ask whether the price is for a skim or a re-plaster, whether beads and making good are included, and who clears the waste.
If it has come down
A ceiling that is sagging or has come down
Ring us, and do not use the form for this. A ceiling that bulges or drops pieces of plaster is a reason to clear the room of people and pull furniture out from under it. If it is wet, switch that room's lights off at the fuse board.
When a wall has gone dark and soft, the water has to be stopped before anything is re-plastered. On the first visit we bring the loose plaster down safely onto sheets, prop or board over what is left, and find the cause. Plastering is booked for weekdays, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. If the line is busy or unanswered, Thomas returns your call as soon as possible.
Worth knowing
What a bungalow changes about a ceiling job
In a house you can shut the door on the room being worked in and go upstairs. In a bungalow there is no upstairs, so dust and noise share the floor with you and the job has to be run differently.
We work one room at a time, seal the doorway and keep a route through the house clear, so you are not living in a building site for a week. It is also why we would rather do the ceilings in the order that lets you keep a bedroom and the kitchen usable the whole way through, even if that is not the quickest order for us.
The good news is the ceilings themselves are simple to reach here. They are all at the same height and reachable from trestles, with no stairwell to build a tower in and no landing ceiling three storeys up, so what you are paying for is the work rather than the access. The catch is directly above them.
Every one of those ceilings has the loft, the cold water tank and the roof immediately over it, so a slipped tile or a weeping tank valve shows up as a stain on a room ceiling within days. If a ceiling has marked, get the hatch open and find the water first. Replastering under a live leak is money poured away.
Who you are dealing with
Plastering in Tiptoe, Lymore and Everton
We plaster and render in Everton, Hordle, Tiptoe and Lymore and on to Milford on Sea, all in SO41. Our base in Boscombe is 10.8 miles from the village, and planning and building control are New Forest District Council's job.
The company is Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, number 15471719, registered in England and Wales. Thomas Hannen owns it. He taps the walls, checks the ceilings and writes the price himself. A verified customer on Checkatrade scored us 10 out of 10. There is no charge for coming out, and none for the written quote, which sets out every item. Before you book a visit in Everton, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.
Planning at a glance
Do you need planning permission in Everton?
Most repairs in Everton 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 Everton |
|---|---|
| Who decides | New Forest District Council is the planning authority for Everton. The National Park boundary runs close by, and the Park's property map shows which side an address falls. |
| Conservation area | None covers Everton, so a like-for-like repair is ordinary maintenance. |
| Listed buildings | Yes, there are listed buildings in and around Everton. If yours is one, work can need listed building consent. |
| Protected landscape | No National Park or National Landscape covers Everton. |
Questions
Questions about plastering in Everton
Why do the render beads rust through on our seaward wall?
Because salt is landing on it. Everton is 2.6km in from the coast, so the wall stays damp between showers and the salt goes for anything metal in the system: the beads, the mesh and the fixings, working from the cut edge inwards. On a bungalow it shows low down, because there is less wall and the weather works the whole height of it. Stainless bead only, on the seaward side.
Everton is bungalow country. Does that change a ceiling job?
It changes the amount of it. In a single storey house every ceiling sits under the loft, not under a bedroom floor, so all of them see the cold roof space and all of them move with it. That is more ceiling per house than a two storey property of the same floor area. We price ceilings room by room and say which can be re-skimmed.
Are we inside the National Park boundary at Everton?
No, Everton comes under New Forest District Council, not the National Park Authority, and the village has no conservation area of its own, so ordinary external work does not carry the extra design scrutiny you would meet a few miles north. There are 15 listed entries in the area, Efford House among them, so checking your own address is still worth doing before you change a finish.
Only the back of the house has render trouble. Why?
Because that is the face taking the weather. The exposed elevation at Everton looks south west, so it gets the driven rain first while the other three sides see the tail of it. Render on that side crazes, the cracks fill with water, and the wall behind stays wet right through the winter. We price that elevation on its own. Nobody should assume the whole house has to be done.
Do you remove the old ceiling or leave it bagged up?
It goes with us the same day. A hacked off ceiling comes down in wet lumps and fills more bags than people expect, but in a single storey Everton house it all comes out at ground level and straight into the van rather than down a staircase. We bag as we go instead of letting it pile up in the hall. Removal is a priced line on the quote, not an extra at the end.
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