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Plastering services in Teesside

Get a free, competitive quote for skimming and re-skims, plasterboarding and dry lining, external rendering, coving and cornice, plaster repairs, and Artex removal.

Skimming & Re-Skims

One room £300–£600, ceiling only £180–£300, whole house £1,800–£3,500.

From £300 →

Plasterboarding & Dry Lining

Board a room £200–£400, board and skim £500–£1,000. Stud, ceilings, dot and dab.

From £200 →

External Rendering

£40–£70 per m². Gable £1,200–£2,500, full semi £4,000–£8,000.

From £40/m² →

Coving & Cornice

Plain coving from £150 a room. Ornate cornice, restoration and matching by the metre.

From £150 →

Plaster Repairs & Patching

Patches from £80. Leaks, blown plaster, cracks, chases and holes made flush.

From £80 →

Artex Removal & Skim-Over

£300–£600 a room. Skim over, over-board or remove, with pre-2000 asbestos advice.

From £300 →

What does plastering cost around Teesside?

A single room skimmed over sound existing plaster, walls and ceiling, sits at £300 to £600 in 2026 on the average Teesside semi. Boarding a room out before the skim adds £200 to £400, external render runs £40 to £70 per square metre depending on the system, coving starts around £150 a room, and a small patch after a leak or a socket move starts near £80. Prices move with room size, ceiling height and how much preparation the walls need before anything wet goes on.

The honest way to read a plastering price is to look at what is being priced: skim only, board and skim, or strip back to brick and start again. Those three jobs on the same room can differ by a factor of three, so a quote worth having says which one it is, states the number of coats, and says who is filling the skip.

Room-by-room figures and the things that quietly push a quote up are set out in the Teesside plastering cost guide.

Teesside walls are not all the same wall

Four kinds of house dominate the patch, and each one wants a different answer. The Victorian terraces of central Middlesbrough, the Hartlepool Headland and the Saltburn jewel streets often still carry lath and plaster ceilings and soft lime coats on solid brick, which reward a light touch and a breathable finish. The interwar and post-war semis of Billingham, Acklam, Norton and Redcar are the classic backing-plaster-and-skim job, usually with a textured ceiling somewhere. The 1980s and 1990s estates at Ingleby Barwick, Coulby Newham and Hemlington are dot and dab plasterboard behind the wallpaper, so tap before you assume. And the seafront properties from Seaton Carew round to Saltburn take a salt-laden battering that shows up in render long before it shows anywhere else.

What a serious plastering quote looks like

Plastering is judged in raking light on a sunny afternoon, months after the money changed hands. A quote worth accepting makes the standard explicit before anyone opens a bag.

• The scope in plain words: skim over existing, board and skim, or hack off and re-render, room by room, with square metres or room sizes written down.
• Preparation named: loose paper stripped, blown areas cut back, PVA or bonding agent where needed, beads to corners and reveals.
• The finish stated: two coats of finish plaster, trowelled and polished flat, ready for mist coat, not left for the decorator to fill.
• Drying time given honestly: fresh plaster needs days, not hours, before paint, and longer in a cold January than a warm June.
• Waste and protection: who sheets the floors, who takes the rubble away, and whether a skip is in the price.
• Insurance and a real trading address: public liability cover you can see, and someone who will come back if a corner cracks.

Where to start

Most plastering enquiries begin with one of three questions. What should this cost, in this year, in this region: the cost guide answers that with room-level figures. Does the wall need a skim or does it need stripping back to brick: skim or full replaster settles it with the tests you can run yourself. And what do you do about that swirled ceiling: Artex removal options compares skimming over, scraping off and over-boarding. If you already know the scope, the quote form takes about two minutes, or get in touch.

Where we cover

Plastering across every TS postcode, from the seafront flats at Redcar and Saltburn inland to Yarm, Ingleby Barwick and the Wynyard estates.

Full details on the areas we cover page.

Plastering guides for Teesside homeowners