Whenever you require a professional Hampshire & Dorset plasterer, J P Plastering has the expertise and the experience to ensure you receive a finish which is second to none, at a price you can afford. We are local and reliable plasterers, with a reputation for excellence in terms of our workmanship, our customer service and our attention to detail.

When wallpaper is stripped off internal walls you should use skimming, we all want to have nice clean painted or freshly papered walls, but it's not unusual to find the walls underneath the paper are cracked or holed etc. This can happen to the most cared for walls as well as any other, it's just what happens after time. If this is what you have then we can make your walls look brand new ready for painting or repapering.

We're usually asked for most artexing styles/patterns to go on ceilings, but still also asked for walls as well. If you already have an artexing pattern on your ceilings or walls, we can re-skim the surfaces first and then apply your new chosen style/pattern of artex.

Until the mid-1980s, the Artex coating was made with white asbestos to strengthen it. Inhaling microscopic asbestos fibres can cause asbestosis and mesothelioma - defined by the World Health Organization as cancers - so anyone removing the coating or working with a surface covered with it should wear protective clothing and masks - and the area being worked on should be sealed off.

Our goal is to provide our customers with quality workmanship, attention to detail, and courteous and professional service, regardless of the size of the job at hand.

External rendering (cement mortar & sand). It's usually applied in two coats/stages. The first is a scratch coat this is applied to the brickwork to flatten out the joints etc, also known as a scratch coat. The second coat is two thirds sand which is applied a day later, and is worked to a smooth finish. There are different types of external rendering we can apply including pebble dash.

When any new internal wall is erected, dry lining plasterboards are the most popular way of covering the internal wall build before plastering of any fashion can take place. When dry lining These are fastened to the internal wood build with nails and lost under the final coats of plastering.

Plasterboard is commonly made with one of two different edge treatments: Tapered Edge, where the sides of the board are tapered at the front to allow for jointing materials to be finished flush with the main board face, and Straight Edge, where there is no different thickness at the side of the board.

This gives a gorgeous look to any room. Coving can marry walls and ceilings up in wonderful, different styles and is becoming more and more popular. When coving You can have a straight forward popular style coving, or for the more adventurous, we can discuss another point of view you may have in your mind's eye.