Plastering is both a skilled craft and an art.

It is often difficult to judge the plastering job that is required for your wall or ceiling. Sometimes one wastes a lot of time looking through websites and directories and searching for the suitable person and the lowest price.

The range of work for plastering jobs could be for new-build housing or commercial developments, small scale domestic extensions or for restoration and repair of existing buildings.

Plastering is enjoying resurgence in popularity due to the introduction of new techniques and cheaper materials.

Remember: 90% of plastering is having the confidence.

Plastering is an acquired skill and is best left to those with the acquired knowledge and experience.

Any flecks of dried plaster in your buckets or on your equipment from previous sessions will later break off to contaminate future batches of plaster.

Doing your own skimming instead of hiring a plasterer, can and will save you a lot of cash so its well worth the time and effort invested in learning how to do the job right.

External rendering should be started on the shady side of the building to keep it unexposed to the sun as long as possible.

Cement based plaster however is primarily used for outdoors, with its general use being rendering. This type of plaster can also be used indoors for areas that are susceptible to damp and require a greater thickness of plaster to cover it.