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Clapham
Plasterers in Clapham
Terraces round the common, most of them split into flats at some point.
Dust sheeted, swept and cleared down daily
One person on site, start to finish
Work planned around parking and access
The housing around the common
Clapham is dominated by Victorian terrace and semi detached property, a lot of it generously proportioned around the common and a good deal of it divided into flats during the last fifty years. Solid brick, lath and plaster ceilings, and cornice that survives in the better preserved houses.
The usual work is skimming rooms back to flat, repairing ceilings, and putting right the junctions left by conversion. Where original detail survives it is generally worth keeping, and the job gets planned around it rather than through it.
Loft rooms and top floor flats
Loft conversions are common here and they leave a specific kind of plastering behind: sloping ceilings, dormer cheeks, and a lot of angles that are neither square nor plumb. Board work on a slope is unforgiving, because any dip in the line shows along the whole length of the room.
Top floor flats bring the other half of it. They sit directly under the roof, so they are the first to show water damage when something above lets go, and a ceiling repair up there usually waits on a roofer finishing first and the structure drying out afterwards.
Access and the practical constraints
Lambeth controls parking across most of Clapham and the streets around the common are busy. Materials come in through the front door, boards get ordered in sizes that will turn on a Victorian staircase, and waste goes out in bags rather than being stacked outside.
In a converted house the common parts get protected for the length of the job. That means sheeting the route in and out, and keeping to whatever hours the lease or the other residents expect, which is a conversation worth having before the first day rather than after it.
What gets done in Clapham
The work that comes up most in Clapham is skimming and plastering, with dry lining close behind. The full list is here, and the other areas covered are here.
Skimming
A finish coat over walls and ceilings that are sound, flattening out years of patching and filler.
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Backing coat and finish on walls taken back to brick, or fresh board skimmed flat and ready for paint.
Read moreDry Lining
Stud partitions, lined out walls and insulated board, set out square and boarded ready for skim or tape.
Read moreRepairs
Cracks, hollow plaster, water damage and making good after other trades, cut back and blended in.
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Plastering in Clapham
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