Plasterer in Coalville

Local to Coalville

The ex-colliery terraces closer to the centre are older, solid-wall properties that occasionally show damp or settlement issues tied to the ground they're built on, given the area's mining history and the way some older streets sit on ground that's been worked below. Further out, the estates built from the 1950s onward are almost universally artexed on the ceilings, since it was the standard finish of the period, and we get regular calls from homeowners who've bought one of these properties and want the textured ceilings gone before they redecorate the rest of the house. The newer developments around Bardon need less remedial work and more straightforward skimming and dry lining on new-build partitions, usually for extensions or loft conversions rather than repair work. Whitwick, sitting a little higher and closer to the old pit workings, has its own pocket of ex-colliery terraces with the same characteristics, and we treat jobs there the same way we would in Coalville itself.

Common plasterer problems in Coalville

Artex ceilings are the defining issue in Coalville's housing stock, and because a lot of it predates 1999, we'd always recommend testing for asbestos before any removal or overboarding starts, rather than assuming an older ceiling's safe to disturb. In the older colliery-era terraces, we also see occasional settlement cracking tied to the ground conditions, which needs assessing rather than just filling and skimming over without understanding the cause. Homeowners renovating one of these ex-council properties for the first time are often surprised by how many rooms still have their original artex once they start looking properly.