Ballyhooly, Co. Cork

Plastering and skimming in Ballyhooly, Co. Cork

Skimming a ceiling or wall, patching, and plasterboard work. Post your task free and professionals working in Ballyhooly reply with their own price. You choose, and pay them directly.

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Plastering and skimming near Ballyhooly

Plastering and skimming: what the job involves

Putting a smooth new finish on walls and ceilings — a thin skim over existing plaster or board, patching damaged areas, or slabbing and plastering new or stud walls. It is wet, messy, skilled work that leaves the surface ready to paint once dry.

How long it takes: Skimming a room usually takes a day on site; ceilings, hacking off old plaster or boarding first add a day or more, and the plaster then needs about one to two weeks to dry before painting.

The full guide to plastering and skimming — the steps, what is included, the Irish rules, paperwork and questions to ask.

What plastering and skimming in Ballyhooly costs, and why

What jobs on Talqero came to

Not enough comparable jobs yet to publish a range here. Talqero shows a price range only once at least five comparable jobs, agreed prices or offers exist — a range from fewer would describe a handful of jobs, not the market. Post your job and compare the offers you get.

What affects the price

Area of walls and ceilings
Skim over sound plaster, or hack off and replaster
Ceilings, which are slower than walls
Boarding or slabbing first
Number of corners, openings and beads
Access, including high ceilings and stairwells
VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced rate of 13.5% by a VAT-registered business — unless the materials come to more than two-thirds of the price, when Revenue’s two-thirds rule applies the goods rate to the whole job. Ask whether a quote includes VAT.

What to ask before you choose

What preparation is included, and how many coats?
Which paint and finish will you use?
Is woodwork included, and are ceilings?
For outside: what happens if it rains on the day?
Is VAT included?

What the work usually involves

Interior walls, ceilings, doors and woodwork
Exterior walls, fascias and windows
Wallpapering and stripping old paper
Plastering and skimming before painting

What to put in your task

Which rooms or walls, and roughly how big they are
The state of the surfaces — cracks, damp, old paper
Whether you will choose and supply the paint
Whether the rooms will be empty or furnished

County Cork in figures

Active construction enterprises: 7,910; Central Statistics Office, 2023
Homes built before 1981: 43.0%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by natural gas: 34.8%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Homes heated by oil: 39.2%; Central Statistics Office, 2022
Households: 210,918; Central Statistics Office, 2022

Construction as a whole. The CSO does not publish enterprise counts per trade at county level, so this figure is not a count of any one trade.

Plastering and skimming · Ballyhooly

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