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Kensington
Plasterers in Kensington
Big rooms, high ceilings, and plasterwork that repays doing slowly.
Dust sheeted, swept and cleared down daily
One person on site, start to finish
Work planned around parking and access
Large period property and mansion blocks
Kensington runs from substantial stucco terraces and detached villas through to red brick mansion blocks, and the two need different things. The houses have the tall reception rooms, deep cornice and original lath and plaster ceilings. The mansion flats tend to have solid masonry party walls, generous proportions and a century of alterations inside them.
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 skimming flat after decades of patching.
Ceilings worth taking seriously
A high Victorian ceiling in a Kensington reception room is a long span of lath and plaster with a lot of weight in it. When the nibs above the laths start to fail it bows gradually, and because it is so far from eye level it can be well advanced before anyone notices.
Where a ceiling is sound it can be repaired and skimmed in place. Where it is moving, overboarding and skimming underneath is usually better, and the board goes up to the cornice rather than through it so the original run is kept.
Working in a block
A mansion block comes with rules, and they are worth reading before the date is set. Most have working hours written into the lease, a goods lift that may or may not take eight foot boards, and a managing agent who wants notice before anything noisy starts.
That shapes the job more than the plastering does. Boards get ordered in sizes that will actually reach the flat, waste leaves on a schedule rather than piling up in a shared hallway, and the hall carpet gets protected on every trip in and out.
What gets done in Kensington
The work that comes up most in Kensington is repairs and coving, with skimming 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 moreSkimming
A finish coat over walls and ceilings that are sound, flattening out years of patching and filler.
Read morePlastering
Backing coat and finish on walls taken back to brick, or fresh board skimmed flat and ready for paint.
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Plastering in Kensington
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