Plasterer in Market Harborough

Local to Market Harborough

The Georgian and Victorian townhouses around the town centre and streets like St Mary's Road often have original coving and cornicing that's been damaged, painted over repeatedly, or partially removed by a previous renovation, and homeowners buying into the town's period housing market are increasingly keen to restore rather than replace it entirely. That takes hand-mitring to match the original profile rather than fitting a standard stock coving, which is a different job to the newer estates on the town's edge, where the work is almost entirely straightforward skimming and dry lining on loft conversions and extensions for growing commuter families who've outgrown their existing space. Given the premium these period properties command, getting the plasterwork right matters more here than in most towns we cover. We've also worked on a number of the town's older shopfronts and commercial units above the high street, where the upper floors often still carry original period plasterwork worth preserving.

Common plasterer problems in Market Harborough

The main issue in Market Harborough's period properties is coving and cornicing damaged by previous renovations or buried under repeated layers of paint, needing careful restoration rather than a standard replacement that wouldn't match the rest of the room. In the newer estates, the more common job is straightforward stud wall and dry lining work for loft conversions as families need more space and convert what was previously unused roof storage. Buyers moving into the town's older streets sometimes don't realise how much of the original plasterwork survives under layers of woodchip and paint until a renovation strips it back.