Anyone know rough plastering costs?

[WaterTight]

Very ball park all I'm after.

I caused a leak which has damaged a ceiling. Not huge amount of water or damage but will need sorting.

Got insurance (although excess is £500..) Just wondering what I should be looking at.

I'm in South East.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I would say it's going to be over 500 with painting

 

[Phil]

What happend? Fibre washer?

 

[hammers4spanner]

Decent painter would sort that easy , most I know would address that.
Cost 2 visits reckon down here 400 quid

 

[quality]

Looks like artex so the whole ceiling will need doing definitely more than 500

 

[hammers4spanner]

Whole ceiling ???
I had exactly this issue few years ago used a P&D to do it .
I supplied sheet of board and he done the rest . He just cut the worst out prepped it first visit come back later and painted it .
Looked like a new ceiling when he finished .

 

[townfanjon]

A good plasterer would sort that and even if its artex could just about recreate the pattern / finish .

On a normal flat ceiling I would see that around £250 /300 ish

I did a repair for a regular customer a while ago , roughly a 9” square hole on smooth/flat ceiling for £150

 

[Best]

I would repair that myself, tbh.
That pattern on the Artex, or whatever the finish, looks rough enough, so should be no problem to match it. Important thing is that the level of the patch isn't different to the rest of ceiling, or it would be noticeable.
A really good plasterer could do that and for very little money. I know an elderly plasterer who was an expert at repairs to coving and that sort of job and would have done that job for an hours labour.

 

[townfanjon]

I would repair that myself, tbh.
That pattern on the Artex, or whatever the finish, looks rough enough, so should be no problem to match it. Important thing is that the level of the patch isn't different to the rest of ceiling, or it would be noticeable.
A really good plasterer could do that and for very little money. I know an elderly plasterer who was an expert at repairs to coving and that sort of job and would have done that job for an hours labour.

An hour , it would be worth flying him over lol

 

[Best]

An hour , it would be worth flying him over lol

Seriously, I am not exaggerating what he would have charged, plus he would have done that sort of work in no more than an hour or two.
One of the old school who had the skill and patience, but never charged much. I once got him to replaster an entire bathroom, which he did very professionally and he asked 50 quid labour. Paid him more obviously.

 

[WaterTight]

I sent a picture and asked for rough idea of price to 6 local plasterers on checkatrade with decent feedback (yes i know, means little) and so far 3 "don't do artex"

Got a feeling that the hard bit will be finding someone skilled with this sort of thing otherwise it'll be a bigger job than needed.

 

[WaterTight]

Also on a sidenote - bit confused about what to do...

If there is a (hopefully outside) chance the repair may not be all that perfect and the customer not that happy, how to I begin the process to make sure I'm not culpable for this?

I'm guessing going the insurance route is the only way, but would I have to insist that I'm not involved in the arranging of quotes etc?

What would you guys do to ensure that you are responsible for claiming on insurance but not responsible for the repair work?

 

[hammers4spanner]

Thats why I used a painter decorator.
Most can artex and will blend it in after. When it happened to me I bought the painter in to meet my customer.
By time he finished it looked like he had put a whole new ceiling up.
Been insurance route before never again unless it' expensive