Plastering in Eaglescliffe
Plastering across Eaglescliffe's TS16 postcode: the interwar and post-war housing along Yarm Road and around Preston Park, older stone and brick property up in Egglescliffe village, and the newer estates towards Urlay Nook and Aislaby Road.
Three kinds of house in one postcode
Eaglescliffe is a mixture. Along Yarm Road and the streets off it towards Preston Park sit substantial interwar and post-war semis and detached houses, sound underneath and usually needing nothing more than a re-skim at £300 to £600 a room once the paper is off. Up the hill in Egglescliffe village, around the green and the church, the stock is older, solid-walled and occasionally stone, where the knuckle test and a look at the damp situation come before any pricing. Towards Urlay Nook and Aislaby Road, the newer estates are dry lined from build, so the work is boards, taped joints and skims.
Extensions and open-plan work
The generous plots along Yarm Road produce a steady flow of rear extensions, garage conversions and knocked-through kitchens, all of them board and skim jobs at £500 to £1,000 a room. The detail that matters is where new meets old: a fresh board wall butting an eighty-year-old plastered one wants proper beads, scrim and a set-out that leaves both faces in the same plane, otherwise the join shows for the life of the room.
Small jobs worth batching
Steel beams boxed in, chases after a rewire, radiators moved, an old fireplace opening made good: Eaglescliffe generates plenty of repair work from £80, and each one costs far less when three or four are done in a single visit. Once a wall has collected several patches at different levels, skimming the whole wall gives a better finish for barely more money, which is the judgement the skim or replaster guide works through.