Plasterer in Loughborough

Local to Loughborough

Streets like those around Ashby Road and the town centre terraces are mostly older housing that's changed hands and changed use repeatedly, family homes one decade, student lets the next, and the plasterwork often shows every one of those changes. Partition walls added for extra bedrooms are frequently done to a low standard, thin studwork with no proper sound insulation between rooms, which becomes a real problem once four or five tenants are living there and every conversation carries through the wall. Out towards Shelthorpe and Hastings, the housing's newer and the jobs are more straightforward: skims, patch repairs, the odd render on an exposed gable end that's taken weather damage over a few winters. Where a landlord's converting a property for the first time, we'll usually flag anything in the existing partition work that needs correcting before we add to it.

Common plasterer problems in Loughborough

The recurring issue in Loughborough is poorly built partition walls in converted student properties, thin stud work with no insulation that lets every conversation and footstep through to the next room. In the older terraces, we also see plaster that's been patched by several different hands over the years, with visible joins where the texture and thickness don't quite match up, usually where a landlord's done running repairs between tenancies rather than a proper job. Once a property's been converted two or three times, it's often simpler and cheaper long-term to strip a partition back and rebuild it properly than to keep patching what's there.