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Plastering and rendering

Walls and ceilings finished flat, and on time

Skimming, plasterboarding, external rendering and covering old artex, across Ludlow and south Shropshire. We come and price it within a couple of days, and the quote is in writing.

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  • A written quote before we start
  • Dust sheets down, mess kept off you
  • Usually starting within a week
A freshly skimmed room with flawless flat plaster and original coving
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A price within two daysby email, itemised, room by room
14 yearson the trowel
3,200+rooms finished
within a weekwe can usually start
A fixed priceagreed before we start
What we do

Everything from a patch to a whole house

One wall, one ceiling, or every room in the place. Same standard either way — flat enough that the light doesn't find anything.

A room part-way through plastering, one wall finished and one still in undercoat

Skimming

A finish skim over sound plaster or fresh boards. Walls and ceilings left flat and polished, ready for paint once they're dry.

from £180 a ceiling, up to 12 m²
A freshly skimmed wall with raking light showing there are no trowel marks

Plasterboarding and dry lining

Boarding out studwork, dot-and-dab onto masonry, and building out around awkward corners so the room ends up square.

from £48 per m², boarded and skimmed
Newly applied silicone render across a house elevation with crisp corner beads

External rendering

Silicone and monocouche render, plus traditional lime on older stone and brick where cement would do more harm than good.

from £58 / m² materials included, depending on finish
Plasterboard freshly fixed to studwork with taped joints, ready for skimming

Covering artex

Textured ceilings skimmed flat rather than scraped off. Faster, far less mess, and no argument about what's in the old coating.

from £240 an average ceiling
Newly fitted plaster coving with the corner mitre filled so the joint barely shows

Damp walls made good

Blown plaster hacked off, the wall left to dry, then re-plastered properly. We'll tell you if the cause needs sorting first.

from £65 per m², hacked off and re-plastered
A wall hacked off cleanly to sound brick after damp, ready to re-plaster

Coving and cornice

Plain coving and period cornice run and fitted, with mitres cut and filled so the corner joint doesn't show.

from £16 per metre, fitted
Guide prices

Fair prices, and you know them first

Guide prices for labour. We're not registered for VAT, so there's nothing to add. The exact figure comes once we've seen the walls — and there's nothing hidden in it.

Skim a ceiling up to 12 m², over sound plaster
£180
Skim one wall an ordinary room wall
from £48
Patch repairs cracks, holes, made good
from £90
Plasterboard and skim per m², materials included
from £58 / m²
External render per m², depending on the finish
from £240
Skim over an artex ceiling per m², hacked off and re-plastered
from £65
Coving fitted per metre, mitres cut and filled
from £16
Travel within 20 miles of Ludlow
free

Beyond 20 miles, 60p a mile. For whole houses, blocks of flats and landlords with several properties we'll price the lot as one job.

How it works

From asking to a finished wall, in 4 steps

1. You get in touch

Fill the form in or ring. Tell us what needs doing and we'll offer you the first free slot.

2. We price it and confirm

We come and look, send an itemised price within two days, and confirm the day and time. You get a text reminder the day before.

3. We do the work

Dust sheets down, floors and sockets covered, and everything taken out at the end of the day. Plastering makes mess; it doesn't have to be left for you.

4. Drying and painting

We tell you how long to leave it before you paint — and it's longer than most people think. Paint too early and you'll be doing it twice.

Why Sandstone Plastering

A trade you can judge by the light

We're a small family firm from Ludlow. The same person prices the job, does the work and answers the phone afterwards — so there's nobody to pass you on to.

  • Time servedCity & Guilds qualified, and fourteen years of it.
  • Clean workSheets, tape and a vacuum. The room is left as we found it.
  • Straight adviceWe'll tell you what needs doing, what can wait and what doesn't need doing at all.
  • We turn upIf we say Tuesday, it's Tuesday. If it can't be, you get a call.
A ceiling half skimmed over old textured artex, showing the difference
A skimmed room ready for paint
A finished skimmed living room, empty and ready for decorating
A stairwell skimmed full height
A hallway and stairwell skimmed full height
A rendered house frontage
A rendered semi-detached frontage in pale grey silicone render
A plumb internal corner
A plumb internal plaster corner running dead straight floor to ceiling
A kitchen ready for units
A newly plastered kitchen, empty and ready for units
Lime render on a stone cottage
What you can expect

Three things we always do

We tell you the drying time before you book the decorator. It's the single thing that causes arguments on a plastering job, and it's the easiest to avoid. You get a realistic number, not the one you'd like to hear.

The quote is per room, in writing. You can see what each room costs and drop one if the total is more than you wanted. Nothing gets added afterwards unless you asked for it and we priced it first.

The room is cleared every evening, not at the end. Sheets stay down, but the buckets, boards and offcuts go. Living in a house that's being plastered is bad enough without walking round a week's worth of it.

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Get a price for your walls

Fill the form in and we'll come back within 24 hours with a date to come and price it. Free, and nothing to sign.

Traditional lime render on a stone cottage, softly textured

Happy to advise

Not sure what you need? Ring us — we'll usually know from a description and a photo.

01632 960061Mon–Fri 7am–6pm
hello@sandstoneplastering.co.ukWe answer within a day
Ludlow and 20 miles aroundLudlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, Leominster, Tenbury Wells…
Monday – Friday7am – 6pm
Saturdayby arrangement
Sundayclosed
Common questions

What people ask us

How long before I can paint it?

Longer than most people want to hear. Fresh plaster on boards is usually ready in four to seven days; over old brick or after a damp job it can be several weeks. It's dry when the dark patches have gone and the whole wall is an even pale pink. Paint it early and it will peel, and you'll be doing it twice.

Can you skim straight over artex?

Nearly always, yes — and it's the sensible way to do it. The high points get knocked off, the ceiling is sealed and then skimmed flat. Scraping artex off is slow, filthy and, in older properties, brings up questions about what's in it that nobody wants answered.

Do I need to move out?

For one or two rooms, no. For a whole house it's easier if you can be elsewhere for a few days — not because of us, but because rooms need to be empty and warm to dry properly. We only need someone to let us in and out.

How much mess is there?

Some — plastering is wet and it splashes. What we can control, we do: sheets over floors and furniture, tape over sockets, and the room brushed and cleared at the end of every day rather than at the end of the job.

My wall is damp. Will plastering fix it?

No, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you the same job twice. Plaster over damp and it comes back within a year. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a leak, a bridged damp course or just condensation, and what needs sorting before we start.

How do I pay?

Bank transfer on completion, or cash if you'd rather. No deposit on ordinary jobs. On bigger ones we ask for the materials up front and nothing else until it's finished.

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