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Cost of skimming

  • 06-01-2020 1:50pm
    #1
    jim salter
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭


    Have decided to skim the walls in the downstairs of the house (as they weren't done when the house was built.

    The surface area is approx 40m² in total.

    Has anyone had this done recently and if so what was the cost?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    twiddleypop
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭twiddleypop


    Jim Salter, do you go ahead with this and how much did it cost?


  • #3
    jim salter
    Registered Users Posts: 680 ✭✭✭jim salter


    twiddleypop wrote: »
    Jim Salter, do you go ahead with this and how much did it cost?

    I did not go ahead.

    The total surface area was 45m2 and the quotes I got ranged from €1300 to €1800


  • #4
    D13exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    Have you considered doing it yourself? I skimmed my attic myself, walls and ceilings. Cost €180 for the plaster and about five days work as it is heavy manual labour. I'd never plastered before but it turned out great, lovely and smooth. Youtube is your friend here and a bit of self confidence.


  • #5
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    D13exile wrote: »
    Have you considered doing it yourself? I skimmed my attic myself, walls and ceilings. Cost €180 for the plaster and about five days work as it is heavy manual labour. I'd never plastered before but it turned out great, lovely and smooth. Youtube is your friend here and a bit of self confidence.

    Five days including learning? Is that five entire days solid? Would you regard yourself as a perfectionist in DIY? Id love to learn to do it myself as I need some jobs done but I am afraid I would do a sloppy effort that I would later regret.


  • #6
    D13exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    Yellow_Fern wrote: »
    Five days including learning? Is that five entire days solid? Would you regard yourself as a perfectionist in DIY? Id love to learn to do it myself as I need some jobs done but I am afraid I would do a sloppy effort that I would later regret.

    Yes I am a perfectionist when it comes to DIY as I have to live in the house and looking at a bodge job would annoy the hell out of me. I used to get trades in before but with one exception, they don't give a sh1te as it's not their house and while they'd be quicker at doing some jobs, they don't do the job to the standard I'd do myself. If you screw up plastering, it can either be gone over and redone or if it is really bad, it can be hacked off and you start again.

    Yes it was five solid days to do my attic as there is a lot of heavy manual labour involved in plastering with carting the 20kg bags of plaster up to the attic, mixing it, spreading it, levelling it off, mixing up a second batch, spreading it, levelling it off and then two more runs of smoothing it off as it dries. There's also the angle beads on corners and taping the joints beforehand!!!

    I learned from YouTube (Plastering for Beginners do excellent tutorials). I mixed up a small batch of plaster and practiced on an offcut of plasterboard out in the back garden to learn how to handle the trowel and hawk. Then I started on the smallest wall in the attic. First attempt turned out to be pretty good tbh and then I smoothed it off with a "speedskim" that I'd bought to flatten the surface. This levels out the humps and hollows that non pros like me would leave behind. Then I mixed up a second runnier batch of plaster for the second coat.

    With plastering, getting the mix right is key. First batch is thicker than the second. Learning when to flatten it and when its not yet ready to be flattened is another trick. I got better and better as I went on and by the time I'd finished the walls and ceilings, they were smooth as silk and I got a great kick of satisfaction out of it.

    Plastering is a messy job and you will splatter a lot on the floor as you learn. Think about putting heavy duty pvc sheeting down in the room before you start to catch the splatter. I had to scrape a lot of splatter off the old floorboards before I could lay the new laminate floor in the attic.


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  • #7
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    D13exile wrote: »
    Yes I am a perfectionist when it comes to DIY as I have to live in the house and looking at a bodge job would annoy the hell out of me. I used to get trades in before but with one exception, they don't give a sh1te as it's not their house and while they'd be quicker at doing some jobs, they don't do the job to the standard I'd do myself. If you screw up plastering, it can either be gone over and redone or if it is really bad, it can be hacked off and you start again.

    Yes it was five solid days to do my attic as there is a lot of heavy manual labour involved in plastering with carting the 20kg bags of plaster up to the attic, mixing it, spreading it, levelling it off, mixing up a second batch, spreading it, levelling it off and then two more runs of smoothing it off as it dries. There's also the angle beads on corners and taping the joints beforehand!!!

    I learned from YouTube (Plastering for Beginners do excellent tutorials). I mixed up a small batch of plaster and practiced on an offcut of plasterboard out in the back garden to learn how to handle the trowel and hawk. Then I started on the smallest wall in the attic. First attempt turned out to be pretty good tbh and then I smoothed it off with a "speedskim" that I'd bought to flatten the surface. This levels out the humps and hollows that non pros like me would leave behind. Then I mixed up a second runnier batch of plaster for the second coat.

    With plastering, getting the mix right is key. First batch is thicker than the second. Learning when to flatten it and when its not yet ready to be flattened is another trick. I got better and better as I went on and by the time I'd finished the walls and ceilings, they were smooth as silk and I got a great kick of satisfaction out of it.

    Plastering is a messy job and you will splatter a lot on the floor as you learn. Think about putting heavy duty pvc sheeting down in the room before you start to catch the splatter. I had to scrape a lot of splatter off the old floorboards before I could lay the new laminate floor in the attic.

    Thanks. I really appreciate the help. I will give it a go. It could be a great project if I am stuck at home self quarantining.


  • #8
    D13exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    Yellow_Fern wrote: »
    Thanks. I really appreciate the help. I will give it a go. It could be a great project if I am stuck at home self quarantining.

    Check out youtube (Plastering for beginners and Plastering Force). They do excellent tutorials from learning how to mix the plaster, how to hold the trowel and hawk and how to put the plaster on etc. Taught me everything I know and my job turned out great. If you want any advice, pm me.


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