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Holland Park
Plasterers in Holland Park
Large stucco villas and mansion flats, with plasterwork that repays care.
Dust sheeted, swept and cleared down daily
One person on site, start to finish
Work planned around parking and access
Villas and blocks
Holland Park is large mid Victorian stucco villas and terraces with red brick mansion blocks among them. The villas have the tall reception rooms, deep cornice and original ceilings; the flats tend to have solid party walls and a century of alteration inside.
In both, the common jobs are repair and refinishing rather than new work: ceilings that have started to drop, cornice interrupted by a moved wall, and rooms that need bringing back flat after decades of patching.
Ceilings worth taking seriously
A high Victorian ceiling in a room of this size is a long span of lath and plaster. When it starts to bow it does so slowly and from a height, so it can be well advanced before it is noticed.
Sound ceilings are repaired and skimmed in place. Moving ones are overboarded through to the joists, with the board run up to the cornice so the original is kept.
Consent and access
Much of the area is listed or in a conservation area, so anything that changes an external finish, and some internal work in a listed building, needs consent first.
That is worth knowing early rather than halfway through, so where a job looks like it needs permission it is flagged at estimate stage.
What gets done in Holland Park
The work that comes up most in Holland Park is repairs and coving, with plastering close behind. The full list is here, and the other areas covered are here.
Repairs
Cracks, hollow plaster, water damage and making good after other trades, cut back and blended in.
Read moreCoving
Plain coving run in and mitred by hand, and period cornice matched, extended and opened back out.
Read morePlastering
Backing coat and finish on walls taken back to brick, or fresh board skimmed flat and ready for paint.
Read moreSkimming
A finish coat over walls and ceilings that are sound, flattening out years of patching and filler.
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Plastering in Holland Park
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Tell Frank what the walls are doing and he will come and look at them. The visit is free and the price comes after it, in writing.
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