Camden · NW5
Plastering in Kentish Town, NW5
Patch repairs, full reskims and ceilings made good. Prepped flat, ready to paint.
Last updated: August 2026
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Your local plastering team in Kentish Town
Some jobs are a single patch repair. Others are a full wall reskim. We plaster across Kentish Town (NW5), working on Victorian terraces, period conversions and converted flats above the shops along the high street throughout Camden, and whichever end of that scale your job sits at you get a flat, even surface that is ready for a clean repaint, at a fixed price agreed before we lift a trowel.
Kentish Town is busy, mixed and unpretentious, home to young families and renters with a strong local high street. The local housing stock, Victorian terraces, period conversions and converted flats above the shops along the high street, typically has lath-and-plaster ceilings, picture rails and cornicing, panelled doors and timber sash windows behind brick frontages. We work on properties right across the area, including streets near Kentish Town Forum.
What plastering in Kentish Town usually involves
Plastering in Kentish Town covers walls and full reskims, ceilings and lath-and-plaster and settlement cracks and blown patches, matched to the victorian terraces found across NW5 and the way these homes are built.
The jobs we are asked for most here, like full flat and room repaints and hallway, landing and stairwell decorating, all start with proper prep and a fixed written price, so a victorian terraces gets a finish that lasts rather than a quick once-over.
Plastering for period and Victorian homes in Kentish Town
Plaster in Camden's Victorian and Edwardian houses is rarely the modern kind, and original lath-and-plaster ceilings and lime walls move, crack and blow as the building settles, so a thick gypsum skim slapped straight over them rarely holds. Each surface gets treated on its merits. We bond out blown sections, reinforce the worst settlement cracks and skim back to a true line, so the wall reads flat under low evening light and not only in the daytime.
Plastering for Kentish Town landlords and letting agents
An inspection flags cracked ceilings or patchy walls before a new tenancy, and that is usually when landlords and letting agents call us in, so we make good and skim ready for paint to a fixed date. The property turns around quickly. It shows well in listing photographs, and no recurring crack reappears a few weeks later.
How we do plastering in Kentish Town
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Free survey and fixed quote
We come out, sound the walls and ceilings for blown plaster, check what is causing any cracks, and tell you honestly whether a patch will do or a full reskim is the sensible route. One fixed price, in writing.
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Strip back and protect
Sheeting goes down before anything else. Floors and fittings are covered and the dust is contained before any hacking off starts, and only then is the loose, blown or crumbling plaster cut out back to sound material.
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Make good and prepare the background
Settlement cracks are raked out and reinforced. Beading is fixed to damaged corners, water-stained or bare patches are treated, and then the right bonding agent or PVA goes on so the new plaster keys properly instead of letting go later.
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Skim to a flat finish
Walls and ceilings are skimmed in coats, then trowelled up to a smooth, true surface, and old artex can be skimmed straight over the top once it is sealed. Nothing needs scraping off.
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Dry, paint-ready hand-over
The plaster is left to dry out fully. We advise on a mist coat, clear our waste away and leave you a flat wall, ready for your repaint or for us to come back and paint it.
Typical painting and decorating jobs in Kentish Town, NW5
Around NW5, the work we are asked for most includes:
- Full flat and room repaints
- Hallway, landing and stairwell decorating
- End-of-tenancy turnarounds for letting agents
- Crack filling and old-plaster preparation
- Sash window and frontage repainting
Plastering in Kentish Town, common questions
Can you skim over artex instead of removing it?
Yes. In most cases we seal the artex, apply a bonding agent and skim straight over the top to give you a flat modern finish. It is cleaner and quicker than scraping it off, it avoids disturbing older coatings, and if the artex is badly damaged or loose we will tell you at the survey.
Do I have to wait before painting new plaster?
New plaster has to dry out fully before it takes paint. Usually several days. It depends on the room, the ventilation and the time of year. Make the first coat a watered-down mist coat so the paint bonds rather than peels, and we will tell you when it is ready and can come back to paint it for you.
My ceiling has a crack that keeps coming back, what causes that?
Recurring cracks are rarely just tired paint. In Camden's older houses they are often the building settling, or movement in original lath-and-plaster. Filling the surface alone will not hold it, so we trace the cause, reinforce or reskim properly, and finish it so it does not craze back along the same line within a season.
How much does plastering cost in Camden?
Plastering is quoted as a fixed price after a survey. A small patch repair is a smaller job than a full wall or ceiling reskim, so the total depends on the size of the area and how much making good is needed. Water damage and blown plaster add prep time, and that affects the figure. You get the price in writing before we start.
How much does plastering cost in Kentish Town?
One fixed price in writing after a free survey. In NW5 the figure is set by what sits behind the surface: lath-and-plaster ceilings that have blown need cutting back and bonding, while a single cracked wall in a flat above the high street shops is smaller.
How long does plastering take in a Kentish Town flat?
One to two days on site for a room, plus drying. A patch is quicker; a full ceiling reskim in a Victorian conversion near the Forum takes the longer end, especially where blown sections have to be cut back to sound material first. Allow several days after that before the plaster takes paint.
Does a cracked Kentish Town ceiling need a full reskim or just a patch?
It depends on what the ceiling is doing. We sound it at the survey: where the lath-and-plaster is still keyed and only the surface has cracked, a patch and make good will hold. Where sections have blown and pulled away from the laths, a reskim is the honest answer, and we say so.
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