Plastering in Hartlepool
Plastering across Hartlepool's TS24 to TS27 postcodes: the Victorian terraces of the Headland and Grange Road with lath ceilings and solid walls, the post-war estates at Owton Manor, the Fens and West View, and the coastal exposure that runs from the Headland down to Seaton Carew.
The Headland and the old terraces
Nothing on Teesside is more exposed than the Headland. Terraced property there and around Grange Road, Park Road and the streets off Church Street is solid-walled, tall-ceilinged and old enough that lath and plaster overhead is routine. The recurring jobs are ceilings whose keys have finally gone, which want taking down and over-boarding rather than skimming, and low-level wall plaster carrying salts from a hundred years of sea air. The skim or replaster guide covers the tests that separate the two.
The estates
Owton Manor, the Fens, Rift House, West View and Throston are a different trade: post-war and later semis with sound backing plaster, textured ceilings in the seventies phases, and rooms that come up beautifully for a straight skim at £300 to £600. Rental stock across these estates also drives a constant stream of made-good work from £80 between tenancies, and batching several rooms or several patches into one visit is where the savings are.
Seaton Carew and the seafront
Down at Seaton Carew, salt and driven rain do to render what they do at Redcar, only more so on the elevations facing the beach. Blown patches at the base of a wall, map cracking across a whole face and paint that will not hold are the usual symptoms, and the fix starts outside with a render specification at £40 to £70 per square metre before a penny is spent inside. Prices across every job type are set out in the Teesside cost guide.