--- title: "Skimming and re-skimming in Alton | 4.9 Star · From £450" description: "Skimming and re-skimming in Alton lays a thin finishing coat over walls and ceilings in Holybourne, Anstey and GU34, leaving a smooth face for paint." canonical: "https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-alton/skimming-and-re-skimming" --- # Skimming and re-skimming in Alton > Skimming and re-skimming in Alton lays a thin finishing coat over walls and ceilings in Holybourne, Anstey and GU34, leaving a smooth face for paint. Heath plastering and rendering carries out Skimming and re-skimming in Alton, so a full wall or ceiling in Holybourne, Anstey or GU34 ends with one smooth face ready for paint. ## Skimming and re-skimming price in Alton We quote Skimming and re-skimming in Alton from the floor area, the ceiling height and how the face stands before any mixing. The quote pays for a bonding coat where gloss needs one, both finishing coats, and corners taken to a sharp edge. More wall to cover changes the quote. A higher ceiling changes it. Ridges in old plaster change it. Bare board needs less getting ready than gloss or an uneven wall. - Skimming and re-skimming: from £450 - Gloss or ridges on an Alton wall mean more work before the coats, and that extra work changes the quote for the room. - Walls and the ceiling in one Alton room share one quote when you name both at Book Now. - Sheets fixed as Plasterboard and dry lining are quoted separately. Paint and wallpaper in Alton start after the plaster is pale. - We reach the Alton address at the time set for that room. The figure given for the skim stays the figure for the work. ## Skimming and re-skimming across Alton We serve Alton from our base in Winchester. - Holybourne - Anstey - GU34 ## What happens on the day On the day of Skimming and re-skimming in Alton we clean the face first. Glossy paint then gets a bonding coat, a brushed layer that lets plaster grip. We trowel the finishing coats flat after that. Finishing plaster is the smooth coat used for those last layers. Paint waits until the new coat has gone pale. ### Gloss, old plaster or new board in Alton We look over the Alton face before the bucket is filled. Gloss paint receives a bonding coat, a brushed layer that lets fresh plaster grip a shiny face or a dry face. Plasterboard, the sheet already fixed on the wall or the ceiling, takes finishing plaster on its paper face. Dusty old plaster in the room gets that same brushed layer. ### Floors covered while an Alton ceiling is skimmed Sheets go down in the Alton room before mixing begins. They remain through the ceiling work and through the wall work. Splashes then miss the flooring. One ceiling was skimmed in a room whose floor stayed covered the whole time. ### Coats and sharp edges in an Alton room The opening coat on an Alton wall or ceiling is spread thin. The next coat is spread in the same spell of work, while the opening coat can still take a trowel. A closing pass leaves the face flat to the hand. A reveal, the inner side of a window or a door, is worked to a crisp edge. Each corner, including the line where wall meets ceiling, is finished crisp on that visit. ### Pale plaster before decorating in Alton Fresh plaster in an Alton room starts dark. It lightens as it dries. Decorating starts only when the pale shade runs across the whole face with no dark patches. Extra thickness adds time. A cold month adds time. Heating left off adds time. The first seal is a mist coat, meaning paint loosened with water. Wallpaper waits for that seal. We leave painting and wallpaper until after it. ## Questions on Skimming and re-skimming in Alton ### Do you do Skimming and re-skimming in Alton? Yes, Heath plastering and rendering does Skimming and re-skimming in Alton, on a whole wall or a whole ceiling. The coat is thin finishing plaster over board that is already fixed, or over plaster that is already on the wall. A damaged patch on its own is wall and ceiling repairs. ### Is Skimming and re-skimming available in Holybourne, Anstey and GU34? Yes, we take Skimming and re-skimming in Holybourne, in Anstey and through the rest of Alton in GU34. Heath plastering and rendering works from Winchester. We skim one wall, one ceiling, or both together in the same room. ### How soon can I book Skimming and re-skimming in Alton? You book Skimming and re-skimming in Alton with Book Now, and you give the days you can be at the house. The visit is placed on one of those days, around the job and around what that room needs. Calls about that booking are taken through the day and through the night. ### Have you skimmed a chimney breast, a small room and a ceiling? Yes, a chimney breast was plastered with a recess shaped for a television and a lower recess that still showed brick, a small room took its first coat on the ceiling and the walls together, and another room was plastered with the ceiling light fitted and tools set on a table. Gary Heath, plasterer, said: "We have been plastering and rendering since 1988. Every job, big or small, gets the same care, and we leave the place tidy when we go." ### What happens at my Alton house after I book the skim? The Alton room is quoted first, then the skim is done at that address. We cover the floor, clean the face, brush the bonding coat onto gloss and trowel the finishing coats flat. Tools leave with us, and the room is left tidy. ## Other services in Alton - [Plasterer in Alton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-alton): Plastering and rendering in Alton leaves indoor walls and ceilings flat for paint, and sand and cement on houses in Holybourne, Anstey and GU34. - [Skimming and re-skimming (all areas)](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/services/skimming-and-re-skimming): Skimming and re-skimming in Winchester by Heath plastering and rendering. Smooth walls and ceilings over new boards or old plaster. 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