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Stripping the wall paper off the walls soon to redecorate and wouldnt mind better the people before have wallpapered over wallpaper etc and by the time its all off the wall will look a mess and maybe need reskimming, this is gonna be the living room, dining room, hallway and landing/up the stairs too.... living room approx 4m x 3.5m same for dining room...... is this much work for a plaster? and what sort of ball park figure would I be looking at....
cheers. (gonna be bricking up the old fireplace too so we can fit a new plasma screen on there cant wait to get the playstation running on that)
£400 upwards just for the living room ohhhh I best start learning how to plaster then cause I aint giving nobody £400 just to plaster my front room, could cost close to 1k in total
not all palsterers will charge the same , as someone is going to give you a price on what he thinks its worth to him then it depends on wether you were getting your ceiling done as well , as the ceiling will add a lot of cash onto the job if its just a cash job you might get someone to do the walls for about £240 and thats just a skim over will not even take 1 man a day, but plasterers are getting hard to find now especially good ones
Steve, that sounds much more reasonable,it'd only be a skim thats required really just to tidy the walls up so we'll have to see how it goes when the wallpaper comes off. cheers for the help
Hi steppers, >>>> If I was to do this room (walls) I would pva all walls and nail or stick new beads on all corners , first visit , 2nd visit at least 5 hours later ,>> to let pva dry, I would skim all walls leaving a paint-able finish, >>£400 ????? yep,
i would get no jobs on saturday mornings if i told peeps £400, although it would be nice for me, one man had a shock when i told him i wanted £400 to board an set a ceiling of similar size but 2.8m high. they just dont seem to want to pay for anything around here
Bead all corners
PVA
Scrap artex and skim over (10 Ceilings)
3 bedrooms
1 bathroom
1 through lounge (11ft by 26ft)
1 front room (11ft by 15ft)
1 kitchen (12ft by 23ft)
Large hall and landing
This was done over 5 weekends and was done after the re-wire.
Alan, when you say about £400 if you was to do that room, do you mean just my living room a size of 4m by 3.5m or do you mean all the rooms Ive put in my post, if you mean all then £400 is reasonable Id say but £400 just for the front room I might sound tight but come on Im budgeting for a plasma screen here
cheer for the offer of a job alan but i dont think you would want to pay me what i earn a week dont mind doing easy cash jobs at weekend though
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We paid £1500 for the whole house This was done over 5 weekends and was done after the re-wire
5 weekends for £1500 i wouldnt be that desperate for cash
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Alan, when you say about £400 if you was to do that room, do you mean just my living room a size of 4m by 3.5m or do you mean all the rooms Ive put in my post, if you mean all then £400 is reasonable Id say but £400 just for the front room I might sound tight but come on Im budgeting for a plasma screen here
alan means just the 1 room its not in his interest to work cheaper
not saying it isnt in his interest, I have no ideas on how long this type of job may take somebody to do in total but the majority of the work is labour and £400 is a fair bit of dosh for 2 days work, some people would be happy with that for a week..... I asked the question so I could up with an idea and I appriciate the replies and the ideas, Im not criticising what people are charging/earning, great if you can get it
that is why more people complain about poor workmanship, they dont want to pay a proper trademan, so they get some inferior person in and then they complain i can make more in one day than alot of people can make in a week so basing your wage on what you want to pay isnt going to work very well for you on getting a quality finish
forgot to say the £400 isnt for 2 days work its for 1 just alan says he like to prep the job the day before, your job will probably have about £40 max in materials
Last edited by stevebt; 14 December 2004 at 22:54.
Steve, but thats what Im saying, some people will moan at why should you earn £400 a day just because your a tradesman? surely this is stupid pricing? that means your earning approx 2k a week. makes some people pig sick that they struggle to earn 400 a week yet you'd be quite happy to take a week wages of someone for a days work.....
£400 upwards just for the living room ohhhh I best start learning how to plaster then cause I aint giving nobody £400 just to plaster my front room, could cost close to 1k in total
god were do y live get aroom done here for 150 quid in cludin the cielin and agood job the guy i use has done my last three housers an hes not scint
I moved to a large detached old house 3 years ago,it needed a new DPC.
I was quoted 5k to do the job
I bashed the old plaster off the walls,got the guy to inject the DPC and replastered the whole lot myself-i have had a little experience of applying glassflake industrially by trowel and thought it couldnt be too difficult to plaster.Result was £180 to inject and £65 for materials to plaster.
Job done for £245..Took me a little longer than a tradesman,but saved a bomb.
Our main bedroom ceiling was bowed too(its 19 x 15 foot) i kicked down the old ceiling(awful job) and painstakingly pulled all the old tiny nails out.Plasterboarded it and applied scrim tape,tried to plaster it but found it too difficult.Called out a plasterer and ended up doing half the work with him,at the end i was getting the hang of it and he said i could earn a living at it with very little practice.
Why not have a go yourself,walls arent too difficult and youll save a fortune..
washer, Im in Grantham, Lincolnshire. £150 sounds more like it
Spike... I might end up having a crack myself. if its gonna cost a grand for a tradesman I'll might at least waste £150 in an attempt to have a crack myself and save a few bob, if I bugger it up in the long run it'll have only cost me 10% more
washer, Im in Grantham, Lincolnshire. £150 sounds more like it
Spike... I might end up having a crack myself. if its gonna cost a grand for a tradesman I'll might at least waste £150 in an attempt to have a crack myself and save a few bob, if I bugger it up in the long run it'll have only cost me 10% more
not wishing to dampen your good spirit to have a go but your living room is your main room you sit in and invite friends into, plus you want to paint it sure this is one room in the house that you want to look good plus if you make a proper mess of it , people will charge more money to put it right and thats if they want to put it right depending on how bad/ good a job you make of it
i booked my car into a garage for some work, and when i settled the bill the labour costs were £360 and that was for 8hrs work its one of those things you just have to pay for if you want good work
Stevebt, how bad can I make it, if it doesnt look right then another skim by someone who knows what they're doing would sort it....
end of the day I refuse to pay someone £400 for a days work end of story.... no matter what it is, Im sure if someone else can do it I sure as hell can learn to do the bugger by the time Ive spent similar monies....
just because your capable of doing a job better than someone else does that entitle you to ask for shed loads of dosh of the joe public?
just because your capable of doing a job better than someone else does that entitle you to ask for shed loads of dosh of the joe public
lol i dont do much private work as i never have the time all my work is commercial as i said to you earlier you will get someone to do it for about £200 ish
99% off my work is private, I said before how long I would take to do the room and I would charge £400 , If I did the full house or biggest part of it the price would errm level out you would get a better deal , The more I do cheaper each area ????? Good plasterers are getting hard to find , (thats why I teach my sons ) anyway good luck , cheers,
I am all in favour of having a bash yourself, but as someone said, it's your living room and unless you have ever done anything with a trowel before it stands a medium to well done chance of looking crap, especially if you are painting it. Waves and scorch marks will stand out with shadows as the light hits them, and bows and dips will also be very noticeable.
Have you got any alcoves you could try on? If you start with the back wall of the alcove there will be no beads to mess with and blemishes are less noticeable - unless you have wall lights.
Ragni trowel & hawk, 30 quidish
Pva £5
new clean bucket £1
whisk £3 from chinky hardware shop.
plaster £3 a bag.
leccy drill - if you don't own one , there's no helping you-pay a plasterer.
Steve & alan - over to you ..............
ps, pour the plaster into the water when mixing. As you pull out the wisk look for a niceley formed walnut whip - worked for me anyway.
if he is going to have a go himself , your idea is the best one MJ, that way you can see what it looks like at night, as thats when its gonna look bad. if you plaster one wall then when its dry give it one coat of white paint then at night shine a torch up the wall and see how good it looks thatll sort the men out from the boys when it comes to plastering
what sort of costs do plasterers charge?
cant wait to get the playstation running on that)
ohhhh I best start learning how to plaster then cause I aint giving nobody £400 just to plaster my front room, could cost close to 1k in total 
then it depends on wether you were getting your ceiling done as well , as the ceiling will add a lot of cash onto the job 
especially good ones 
