Plastering quote

Keldin

I'm trying to get quotes to get a room skimmed in Surrey (inside M25 so probably London prices) and just got the first quote in.
To skim the walls and ceiling (the ceiling has some very light artexing) of a 12ft square room with 8ft high ceilings (large window and 3 doors in the room) and to do just the ceiling of another identical room I got quoted almost £800.
I had the walls skimmed of another room (same size and only one doorway) for around £300 less than a year ago so I expected something maybe a couple of hundered more for doing 2 ceilings.
Are ceilings that much harder that 2 ceilings would add over £400 to the price or is this the new going rate for plastering?
Anyone want to do some plastering work in Surrey :-)

Thanks
K

vansboy

Similar to what we paid, but they put new plaster board over the artex.

Much neater job, if it's done this way. Are you sure that they are going to skim yours & NOT board over?

& is this a different plasterer than you used last time - if not, can't you get the first one back?

VB

Keldin

The 800 quote could have included boarding the ceiling but he made no mention of that even when I queried the high cost.
I've got a quote of 350 to do the one room including ceiling (a couple of quote at that price actually). Had a good discussion with one plasterer about the ceiling as to whether it needed boarding and it turns out (after ripping out a chunk of coving to have a look) that the ceiling is boarded and has a plaster coat on it that is just deliberately bad so as to hide the fact they couldn't plaster smoothly. So no boarding needed and he can just skim straight over.
So got a good result in the end.
Thanks for the help

K