Plastering & Roughcasting Guides

Guides, Not Sales Pages

We leave each job the way we would expect it in our own homes

What we would tell you on the phone, written down. Read the one that matches your wall and then decide whether to ring anybody.

Plain English

No obligation

From the people on the tools

Worth reading first

Before you get quotes

Most of the money people waste on this trade is spent before anybody picks up a trowel, on the wrong job for the wall they have.

Four words, two methods, and a lot of confusion when you are getting quotes. Here is what each one actually means.

Why no honest tradesman can put a figure on this page, and the things that actually decide what yours comes to.

Usually yes, and almost never by scraping it. Here is how the decision actually goes.

One is a tidy day and a thin coat. The other is a skip. Which you need is decided by tapping the wall, not by looking at it.

Decades, if it was put on properly and the water is kept off it. Here is what shortens that, and how to tell where yours is.

Three materials all called render. They behave differently, and the right one depends on the wall rather than the brochure.

Get in touch

Tell us what the wall or the room looks like now and we will come back to you with a price and a straight answer about what it needs.

07501 844432