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Plastering a Dining Room in Sutton This bullseye window was part of a job in Weybridge we were asked to plaster by one of our old school builders (no dot and dab.  All solid plastering).  We have included it to show the detail involved. Firstly, we had to find the exact centre of the window.  […]

Plastering a Dining Room in Sutton We were asked to plaster this dining room in Sutton.  It was tired and in need of updating.  Also the walls had been damaged by previous building work and the removal of the old wallpaper which had proved very difficult to remove.  Although quite straightforward, the room had original

Rendering an Oriel Bay Window I went to view a small rendering job in Sutton. Once there the client informed that I was the third plasterer to visit. Apparently the other two had walked away saying that they did not know how to re-render this oriel window. Although a small amount of area it was

Rendering Project Holland Park Cheam Plastering was invited to work alongside a multi award winning landscaping company.  Our instruction was to render all the retaining walls and to create straight lines with no joins or cracks. This was not as simple as it sounds because the main contractor (not the landscaping company) had built the

Plastering Wimbledon This job in Wimbledon consisted of a small extension and a ground floor refurbishment.  We tacked the ceilings and dot and dabbed (plasterboard stuck to the walls with plasterboard adhesive).  Once all stuck and tacked we skimmed the entire ground floor, including the utility room and cloak. Finally we erected cornice to the

Rendering Teddington Church This small job was in Teddington, on the portico of a Methodist church which had been developed into two semi detached houses.  The previous rendering by the developer had been executed poorly.  The plasterers had used internal plaster to dub out large holes and to erect the corner beads.  Over time the