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Cost of having ceilings skimmed?
emeraldbugle
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We have just purchased a new house and are looking at the costs of doing it up. The ceilings are covered in artex, really not to our taste!
The bedroom is 18ft x 18ft.
Any ballpark figures to give us an idea?
Thanks
The bedroom is 18ft x 18ft.
Any ballpark figures to give us an idea?
Thanks
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Between £300/£400.
gary0 -
Good morning: We had the ceilings in 2 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, bathroom and hallway skimmed for £400...we are in East Kent.
HTH
CanuckleheadAsk to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)0 -
Canucklehead wrote: »Good morning: We had the ceilings in 2 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, bathroom and hallway skimmed for £400...we are in East Kent.
HTH
Canucklehead
£400 all in or £400 per room?0 -
we had a large lounge completely done (walls and ceiling) and 1 other small kitchen wall, for 600 quid.Get some gorm.0
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emeraldbugle wrote: »£400 all in or £400 per room?
Good afternoon: £400 for all the ceilings skimmed...excellent job by a local father and son team.
HTH
CanuckleheadAsk to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)0 -
Think its like anything else and the more you shop around, the better your deal will be.
Recently had my 12ft x 11ft kitchen skimmed on all walls and ceiling for £300 by a local one man band, all in, and it was a belting job! (And I'm rather picky when it comes to wall smoothness!!! lol)
Sometimes trade schools are a good place to enquire, the apprentices can be awsomely talented and do it for a fraction of the price!!!0 -
If the artex is a thick stipple, you wont be able to just skim it, it will require overboarding or a backing plaster first as a skimming coat can only be laid on to 3-4mm
Depends where you are located also,just a reskim should be around the 2-250 mark.0 -
I think I am going to give my plasterer big Christmas bonus, he has done every room in my house over the last year, he is doing my bedroom ceiling next for £80, did my hall, lounge and kitchen including underboarding for £650! (I am in Suffolk)0
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I had my swirled artex skimmed about a month ago. 12 x 12 room cost about £250. Also quoted for my lounge which is slightly larger £270.0
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