Renovation Plastering & Decorating in Halifax & West Yorkshire

Mostly people who have just got the keys to an older house and found decades of wallpaper, painted-over tiles, and plaster that sounds hollow when you knock it. Also landlords turning round a property between tenants, and homeowners who would rather do the whole house properly in one go than a room a year.

If it's one tired bedroom, our interior decorating service is the better fit. This is for when the walls themselves need work before any colour goes on.

The first stage is getting to something sound. Old paper comes off, kitchen and bathroom tiles come off, and we sound every wall to find where the plaster has lost its grip. Anything blown gets hacked off rather than skimmed over, because new plaster over failed plaster cracks.

This stage looks worse before it looks better. On a recent terrace the bedrooms, staircase and kitchen were back to bare plaster and adhesive within days, which is exactly where you want to be before replastering.

If you're having new sockets, lighting, radiators moved, or pipework rerouted, that wants to happen after the strip-out and before the plaster goes on. Chasing cables into a brand new wall means patching it straight away.

We're used to working around electricians, plumbers and joiners, and we'll help you line up the order so nothing gets done twice.

Once the walls are back to sound, we replaster or skim room by room. Bonding where the background needs building up, plasterboard where a wall or ceiling is beyond saving, and a finish skim over the top that's ready for paint.

Older stone houses in the Calder Valley sometimes need a more traditional approach on solid walls. We'll tell you where that applies rather than using one system everywhere.

New plaster has to dry properly before decorating, and a big renovation puts a lot of water into a house at once. We plan the order of rooms around that, use heaters and dehumidifiers where it helps, and only start the mist coat once the plaster is ready for it.

Walls and ceilings, then the woodwork: skirting, architrave, doors, staircases, window boards, boxing and radiators, all prepped and painted so the finish matches across the house. Colour advice is there if you want it, and we're happy to leave rooms in a neutral finish if you'd rather live in the house before choosing colours.