Plasterer & Roughcaster in Clydebank

Work in Clydebank

Rebuilt stock

Clydebank lost an enormous amount of housing in the Blitz and a great deal of what stands now went up in the rebuilding that followed. That gives much of the town a fairly narrow band of construction age and a common set of wall types.

As everywhere else, houses built together reach the end of a coat together. A street where several houses are being done at once is not a coincidence.

Exposure and the weather

Sitting where it does, with open ground and the river, the exposed elevations here take a beating. West and south west facing gables are the ones we are usually called to first.

Driving rain finds the weak point in a coat, and once water is behind the render it travels. Black streaking running out of a crack is that happening.

Inside work

Ceilings and Artex, same as the rest of the post war stock, plus the tenement and flatted property where lath and plaster and high ceilings change the job.

We cover and skim textured ceilings rather than scraping them, and we tape live cracks before anything goes over them.