--- title: "Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton | 4.9 Star · From £450" description: "Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton flattens walls and ceilings in Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne and Woolston with a thin finishing coat ready for…" canonical: "https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/skimming-and-re-skimming" --- # Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton > Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton flattens walls and ceilings in Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne and Woolston with a thin finishing coat ready for… Heath plastering and rendering flattens walls and ceilings with Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton, so a room in Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne or Woolston has one even face that is ready for paint. ## Price of a Southampton room skim The price for Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton is quoted for that room before the day is fixed. The quote takes in making the face ready, the finishing plaster and corners worked true. A larger floor, extra ceiling height or a rough old face moves the quote. Fresh boards need less getting ready than a wall full of ridges. - Skimming and re-skimming: from £450 - Bumps or shiny paint on a Southampton wall mean extra getting ready, and that getting ready is part of the skim quote. - Tell us each wall and the ceiling at Book Now. Those faces in one Southampton room share one quote. - This quote leaves out Plasterboard and dry lining, the job of fixing the boards. Colour and wallpaper sit outside it too, and they start once the coat is pale. - We turn up at the booked time for the Southampton skim. The quoted amount for that room stays as it was set. ## Skimming and re-skimming across Southampton We serve Southampton from our base in Winchester. - Shirley - Portswood - Bitterne - Woolston - SO14 - SO15 - SO16 - SO17 - SO18 - SO19 ## What happens on the day Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton means finishing plaster on the full face of a wall and on a ceiling. We put sheets down before the mix starts. We get that face ready next. We lay a first coat and a second coat, then close it with a trowel. The plaster lightens as it dries, and paint waits for that. What the Southampton room needs, and the timing of the job, set how the skim is done. ### Skimming a Southampton ceiling with the floor covered We cover the Southampton floor with sheets before any plaster is mixed for the ceiling. Those sheets stay down until the face is closed. We have plastered a ceiling above a kitchen that stayed covered for the work. We have plastered walls in an empty room while sheets covered the floor. ### Skimming painted walls in Southampton We skim painted walls in Southampton once the old face is clean. We take loose flakes off a painted wall and off an uneven old wall. We wipe each wall. We put a bonding coat over the paint. A bonding coat is the preparatory coat that lets new plaster stick to a shiny face. New plasterboard, the sheet fixed to a frame or onto a wall, takes the finishing plaster on its bare face. ### Skimming walls and ceilings together in Southampton We skim the walls and the ceiling in a Southampton room on the same visit. We lay the first coat on each face. We lay the second coat before the first has firmed. We close the plaster with the trowel so the room has one even face. We finish a window reveal, the inner side of the opening, to a crisp edge. Doing both faces on that visit keeps those corners straight. ### Painting after skimming in Southampton You can paint after skimming in Southampton once the plaster is one pale shade. More thickness adds time before that shade. The time of year adds time. Heating left off adds time. We brush on a mist coat, which is paint mixed with water. Colour or wallpaper goes on only after that seal. We do not paint the room as part of the skim. ## Southampton questions on Skimming and re-skimming ### Do you do Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton? Yes, in Southampton, Heath plastering and rendering spreads finishing plaster in a thin coat across full walls and full ceilings in Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne and Woolston. The coat goes over fresh boards or over the plaster that is already there. Winchester is our base, and the Southampton areas also include SO16, SO19, SO14, SO18, SO15 and SO17. ### How soon can Skimming and re-skimming in Southampton be booked? Book Now with the days you are free to be in the Southampton property. We set the skim for one of those days, and the timing follows what that room needs. Calls are answered any time, day or night. ### Have you skimmed loft walls and ceilings with lights? Yes, our finished skims include a loft wall next to a rooflight, which is a window set into the roof slope, with the timber reveal, the lining around that opening, still open, and a ceiling where two pendant lights hung in a room being decorated. 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 once a Southampton skim is booked? You get a quote for the Southampton room before the day is fixed. On that day we sheet the floor, make the face ready and trowel the finishing coats flat. We leave the room tidy once the skim is finished. ### Where is the phone number for a skim in Southampton? The Heath plastering and rendering number for a Southampton skim is with Book Now. Calls are answered any time, day or night. Use it for Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne or Woolston, and for SO16, SO19, SO14, SO18, SO15 or SO17. ## Other services in Southampton - [Plasterer in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton): Plastering and rendering in Southampton gives Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne and Woolston flat indoor plaster and a sand and cement coat outside. - [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. Book Now. - [Wall and ceiling repairs in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/wall-and-ceiling-repairs) - [Plasterboard and dry lining in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/plasterboard-and-dry-lining) - [Artex removal and smoothing in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/artex-removal-and-smoothing) - [External wall rendering in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/external-wall-rendering) - [External rendering repair in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/external-rendering-repair) - [Coving and cornice in Southampton](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/plasterer-southampton/coving-and-cornice) ## Business facts - Service area: Winchester, Andover, Basingstoke, Southampton, Newbury, Alton, Fareham, Chandler's Ford, Kingsclere, Bishop's Waltham - Calls: Calls answered 24/7 - Phone: +447868284623 - Email: team@heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk ## Book Now - [Book Now](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/#chat): Send the job details and request a quote from Heath plastering and rendering. ## Sitemap - [Full sitemap](https://heath-plastering-and-rendering.co.uk/sitemap.md): Complete machine-readable page directory.