Plasterer & Roughcaster in Kirkintilloch

Work in Kirkintilloch

The canal town and what grew round it

Kirkintilloch grew along the canal and kept an older core of stone and traditional build, with large post war estates added round it.

The older property wants a coat that lets the wall breathe. The estates are the ordinary work: block behind, roughcast from new, and a coat now reaching the end of its life.

Streets that go together

Estate housing built in one go reaches the end of a coat in one go, which is why a street can suddenly look like everybody has decided to do their house at once.

It also means that once we have done one house on a type we already know what is behind the finish on the rest of them.

Inside

Textured ceilings from the seventies and eighties, ceilings filled once too often, and walls papered past the point of taking anything else.

We cover and skim textured ceilings rather than scraping them, which keeps the dust down.