Edinburgh Plumbers: Bathroom, kitchen and utility room plumbing Edinburgh

Electricians Edinburgh: Kitchen and bathroom elctrics, outside lights and rewiring

Concrete & Stone Paving: New driveways, patios and garden paths Edinburgh

Painting & Decorating Edinburgh: Ceiling painting, wallpaper hanging and decorative effects Edinburgh

Tilers Edinburgh: Tiles on electrical underfloor heating systems, kitchen and bathroom tiling

Loft Conversions & Extensions Edinburgh: Plans, planning applications and construction by local builders

Carpenters and Joiners Edinburgh: custom units, bespoke casing & refurbishment joinery for building repairs

Kitchens & Bathrooms Edinburgh: Units fitted, plumbing, electrical installation & tiling Edinburgh

Stud Wall, Plasterboard & Plastering: Textured ceilings removed, reboarded and new ceilings and walls plastered

Edinburgh Television Aerial & Satellite: Aerial and tv networks fitted for all-room tv viewing Edinburgh

Central Heating Edinburgh: Baxi, Vaillant, Ideal and most boilers installed, serviced and repaired

Roofers Edinburgh Roof repairs, roof tiles stripped and replaced, dormer windows fitted, chimney repointing

Flooring Edinburgh all kinds of flooring materials layed & fitted

Gardener Edinburgh for garden maintenance and landscaping projects

Windows & Doors Replacment window frames, glazing units and doors

Locksmith Edinburgh Replacment door and window security locks

Drain Cleaning Edinburgh clearing blocked drains and checking drainage pipes for cracks

UK Motorhome Hire Rent a camper van or motorhome near Edinburgh

Washing, cleaning and valeting services: Vehicle cleaning inside and out

Finding a reliable Edinburgh plasterer or screeder

If you need to employ a decent plasterer in Edinburgh to complete household plastering projects at your home or experienced screeders in Edinburgh are needed to assist with floor laying for extensions or conservatories, we can help you locate a trusted tradesperson. Whatever the nature of your plastering or screeding project, submitting an enquiry form can put you in touch with experienced local plastering and screeding specialists who pride themselves on providing good customer service and workmanship to the highest standard. So for interior wall plastering work or application of exterior screed or render, send an enquiry through today for the solution to your plastering and screeding needs.

Edinburgh external rendering services

Weather damage protection is needed for surfaces on exterior walls and coating walls with surfacing materials can do this. Plasterers in Edinburgh can employ various rendering techniques but location can influence preferences for finish choices. New build houses can have render applied as part of property designs, or applied as a coating for surfaces like brick that is in poor condition from age. Textured or smooth finishes to render can be applied and use of coloured render can mean painting is unnecessary, or normal render that needs painting afterwards can be used. Other choices for exterior surfacing materials can add more texture

Services delivered by Edinburgh screeders

Many screeding services can be provided by expert Edinburgh screeders, in addition to delivering comprehensive quotes for work. If you're building your own home and you need floor screeding services so solid floors on the ground floor can be laid, or extension or conservatory erection is being completed and a base made from screeded concrete needs laying, we can help you find quality screeders in Edinburgh. Our knowledgeable screeders are also able to fill damaged sections of screed, whether screed outside has been affected by frost or there was poor initial laying of interior screed and it needs removing and relaying. Damp proof membranes can be covered with concrete screed when solving damp problems in properties, in advance of flooring material laying.

Service plasterers in Edinburgh offer

Many services are offered by Edinburgh plasterers, from dot and dab dry lining services to securing ceilings and walls with plasterboard and plasterboard skimming to create partition walls or for garage or loft conversions. Old artex can be skimmed over using new plaster or application of fresh artex can be carried out. Rooms can be enhanced using decorative plasterwork from coving attachment below ceilings to surrounding pendant lights with ceiling roses and fitting niches and domes to decorate ceilings and walls in period properties. Whatever services you need from plasterers in Edinburgh,

Plastering tools used by Edinburgh plasterers

• Marshalltown corner tool
• Bucket trowel
• Jointing tools
• Corner mitre
• Hex shaft mixing paddle
• Wooden float
• Feather edge made from aluminium
• Straight edge tool
• Universal angle ball adapter
• Poly plastering hawk

Edinburgh services screeders and plasterers deliver

• Background bridging to enable plastering
• Fixing damaged lath and plaster
• Fixing damaged panels of plasterboard
• Covering plaster slabs with semi-fluid plaster
• Water leak damaged ceiling repairs
• Erecting drywall
• Exterior lime wash application
• Repairing damaged screed floors
• Using screed to cover underfloor heating pipes
• Decorative plasterwork restoration

Edinburgh plaster ceiling repair work

If ceilings of your home suffer damage, and insurance claims are needed to repair problems, whether because pipes or tanks are leaking or a roof leak is occurring or damage to structures caused by fire or smoke has occurred, Damage from above or below can cause holes providing seamless repairs to ceilings in rooms of your home. Where damage to ceilings is caused by water, as there is nowhere for pooled water to escape to. prior to application of fresh plaster.

Edinburgh wall plastering

Plaster is mixed by experienced Edinburgh plastering specialists so a trowel can apply plaster from the hawk to the wall, and a plastic, wood or steel float is used to smooth the plaster surface. Quality plasterers in Edinburgh tend to apply two coats of plaster, allowing air drying of the first coat before finishing the plastering job with a top layer, and scratching tools will be used to create an uneven surface so the second plaster layer doesn't fail. Areas where corners jut out into rooms, angle beads or plaster beads are needed to support corners

Reasons why plaster fails

• Coats of plaster no longer bonding
• Surface friable and powdery
• Plaster freezing
• Wall adhesion lost
• Not matching original plaster materials
• Using wrong paint
• Cracks in plasterwork surfaces
• Migration of salt
• Water seeping into plaster
• Weak background for plaster

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