When a ceiling has cracked, plaster has blown off a wall, or a room needs skimming before you decorate, you want a plasterer in Croydon who answers, turns up when he says he will, and tells you the price before any work starts. That is how Hills Maintenance & Repairs has worked for more than 30 years.
Rick started the firm after watching too many contractors cut corners on jobs they would never have stood for in their own homes. Every plastering job we take on across Croydon and South East London gets set out and finished to the standard he would want under his own roof, whether it is a single skim coat or a whole room re-plastered from bare brick.
A local plasterer Croydon homeowners trust
We are based in Croydon and cover the whole of Croydon, from Addiscombe and Thornton Heath to South Croydon, Purley and Selsdon, plus the wider stretch of South East London, Kent and Surrey. You deal with a named local tradesman who knows the streets, not a stranger sent from miles away. He turns up himself, sees the job through, lays the dust sheets, and leaves the place tidy.
You tell us what needs doing, we look at it properly, and you get a clear written quote before we start. There are no "while we're at it" extras waiting for you on the invoice.
Plastering jobs we take on
Most weeks that means the plastering that gets a room ready to decorate or puts it right after damage, in the bathroom, the kitchen and everywhere a wall or ceiling needs a clean, flat finish:
- Re-skimming tired or cracked walls and ceilings ready for paint
- Patching and making good after a leak, damp or a wall removed
- Full re-plastering of rooms taken back to the brick
- External rendering and monocouche on garden and house walls
- Plasterboarding and drylining stud walls and ceilings
- Setting out and skimming new boards to a smooth, even surface
Skimming, re-plastering, rendering and drylining
Plastering is not one job, so it pays to use someone who does the lot and sets each one out right:
- Skimming and plastering: a fresh skim coat over sound or freshly boarded walls and ceilings, flattened ready to paint
- Rendering: external walls rendered in sand and cement, with cracked or blown render cut out and made good
- Monocouche: through-coloured one-coat render that needs no painting, applied to last
- Drylining: stud walls and ceilings plasterboarded, and dot-and-dab boarding fixed to bare or uneven walls
Do I need a skim or a full re-plaster?
It is the question that decides the price, and the honest answer depends on what is behind the surface. If the existing plaster is sound and well stuck to the wall, a skim coat over the top is quicker and cheaper. If it has blown, is coming away in patches, or sounds hollow when you tap it, it needs taking off and re-plastering properly. We check it before we quote so you are not paying for a full re-plaster you do not need, or skimming over a wall that will only blow again.
What plastering costs in Croydon
It is the first thing everyone asks, and the honest answer is that it depends. Skimming a room in Croydon commonly runs from around £300 to £700 depending on its size and how much patching it needs first, with bigger re-plastering and rendering jobs priced on the work involved. What moves the price is the size of the walls or ceiling, how much old plaster has to come off, and how much making good the surface needs before we start.
That is exactly why we don't quote blind down the phone. You tell us what needs doing, we come and look at it properly, and you get a clear written price before any work starts, free and with no obligation. There's no call-out fee, no cash-only pressure, and no "while we're at it" extras waiting on the invoice.
How to avoid a bad plasterer
Plastering is one of those trades where a rushed job hides itself until the paint goes on and every ripple shows. Before you let anyone start, check that they:
- Give you a price in writing before the work, not a vague figure after
- Are a named, local person you can ring back, not an anonymous number
- Are fully insured and lay dust sheets to protect floors and furniture
- Set the walls out flat and clean up after themselves, not leave you the mess
Plastering as part of a bigger job
Plastering usually sits between trades, which is where jobs with separate contractors go wrong: the wall is not ready when the tiler turns up, or a room is re-plastered before a damp problem behind it is sorted, so it blows again. We do the lot in-house, so walls are made good and skimmed in the right order, the damp is dealt with first, and the room is left ready for paint or tiles. One firm, one price, no one to chase.
A plasterer you can actually talk to
Fully insured, with 30 plus years on the tools behind every job, and a real person to ring afterwards if anything is not right. Need a plasterer in Croydon? Tell us what needs doing using the form, by phone or on WhatsApp, and Rick will come back with a free, no-obligation quote, usually the same day.