Real jobs from around North Somerset — plastering, rendering and roofing.
New roof timbers going up on a big agricultural building. Every rafter set
out, cut and braced before a single tile goes anywhere near it — and
honestly, this is my favourite stage of any job.
01 Plastering & rendering
Walls, ceilings and render.
Finished chimney stack, cut in clean under the old brick oversail. Two
faces, one straight edge — that's the bit that has to be right.
An old end cottage with the front and side both done, the chimney rendered
and capped and everything cleared away. It looks after itself a lot better
now than it did.
Chimney render dressed neatly down to the lead flashing. Roof-level work is
fiddly, but it's usually where a render gives up first, so it's worth the
extra time.
Scratch coat combed up and left to key, beads set true down both edges.
This is the stage nobody ever sees, and it's the one that decides how the
finish turns out.
A front boundary wall coated up nice and even, with the caps set straight
the full length of the run. Tidied the front of the house up no end.
Where a new extension meets the old wall. Flat and even the whole way up,
with a nice sharp edge on the corner — which is the fiddly bit.
New extension gable in base coat, beads picking out the verge and the door
head. Straight lines first, pretty finish after.
Loft room reskimmed top to bottom — sloping ceiling, walls and the window
reveal all done. Ready for a coat of paint.
Fresh scratch coat on an extension gable, bi-folds in below. Nice dry day
for it, which always helps.
02 Roofing
Rafters, tiles, and everything above the wall.
Rafters up and braced, every one hung on galvanised steel before a single
tile goes on. Nobody sees this once the roof is finished, and it's the part
that matters most.
A full re-roof on a farm outbuilding, tiled right through with the hips and
the ridge run straight and true. It's a working yard, so pardon the pallets,
but that roof will keep the weather out for a long time yet.
A long stone barn with the covering, rooflights and black fascias, soffits
and guttering all sitting neat and square. There's a fair bit of roof to
get across on one this size.
A finished tiled roof on a farm building, ridge and hips capped off and
every course sitting straight. The old sheeting next door gives you a fair
idea of where we started.
03 Yours next
Fancy yours looking like that?
Give me a ring or drop me a message and tell me what you've got. I'll come and
have a look whenever suits you, and there's no charge for that.
