Plasterer and Renderer in Burscough
Canal-side brick, converted farm buildings, and modern estates that want nothing of the sort.
Southport, the Sefton coast, Liverpool and West Lancashire
Old brick along the canal
The older part of Burscough is soft handmade brick along the Leeds and Liverpool, cottages and workers' housing and a good number of buildings that started agricultural. Brick of that age is porous and was built to get wet and dry out again.
That rules out the obvious answer. Sealing soft old brick under a hard cement render turns a wall that has coped for two hundred years into a damp one, because the water still gets in at the head and the joints and then has nowhere to go. Where render is right on a building like this it has to be a breathable one, and often lime is the honest answer rather than anything modern.
Converted agricultural buildings
There is a lot of converted farm building around Burscough, and it produces walls made of more than one thing: original brick meeting blockwork, a rebuilt section that never matched, an opening filled in decades ago.
Those are interesting jobs and they are slow ones. Every different material takes suction at a different rate, which is exactly the situation a primer is for, and the substrate has to be assessed honestly before anything is priced rather than after the scaffold is up.
The modern estates want the opposite
The newer housing on the edges of the village is conventional cavity brick and block, and nothing above applies to it. Silicone thin-coat, monocouche and traditional systems are all realistic, and most of what we do on it is internal: skimming after alterations, media walls, loft rooms and garages finished off.
Newer houses also settle in their first years, so taped joints and beaded angles matter more than they look like they should. Skipping them is why so many newer houses crack in the same predictable lines.
The other thing about the newer edges of Burscough is that they are still growing. A good share of what we do there is finishing off work somebody else has built: an extension shell boarded and skimmed, a garage lined out, a knock-through made good. That is straightforward work as long as the drying time is in the plan.
What we are asked for most in Burscough
External Rendering
Re-rendering tired, cracked and blown elevations, including stripping off failed pebbledash first.
Read moreSilicone Rendering
Through-colour silicone over basecoat and mesh, breathable and never needing painting.
Read moreInternal Plastering
Skimming, float and set, ceilings and repairs, flat enough to run a hand across.
Read moreDry Lining & Plasterboarding
Stud walls, ceilings and insulated linings, set out square, taped and beaded before skimming.
Read moreRe-rendering the whole house rather than one elevation? See full house re-rendering, which is the same work priced and sequenced for every elevation of a Burscough house at once.
Nothing written up in Burscough yet. The nearest work on mixed brickwork is a rear elevation of three different bricks pulled back into one plane. Next door is Ormskirk.
Questions from Burscough customers
Do you come out to Burscough?
Yes. It is about ten miles from Liverpool Road in Southport, over the moss through Ormskirk. We are a Southport business that travels to Burscough rather than a local one, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. The estimate is written down before anything starts and there is no separate travel charge on it.
Should an old brick cottage be rendered at all?
Often the honest answer is no, or only where a wall is genuinely past repointing. Where it is the right call, the finish has to be breathable. A cement render on soft handmade brick causes far more damp than it ever cures.
Do you work on converted barns and outbuildings?
Yes, and they are usually the most interesting walls we see. They are also slow, because the elevation is rarely one material and each one behaves differently, so the price has to come after a proper look.
Do you charge to come and look?
No. Estimates are free and given in writing after we have come out and looked at the walls. We do not price rendering or plastering over the phone, because what a wall needs is decided by what is underneath it.
What customers said
4.7 out of 5 on Google and 5.0 from 35 reviews on MyBuilder, plus 100% recommended from 6 recommendations on Facebook. Every review below is verbatim from those profiles, and each one says which.
I received a first class service from Birkdale Plastering. Anthony always attended as arranged. He was invariably polite and hard-working and cleared any mess before leaving. I am very pleased with the finished job.
Antony did a great job would highly recommend him
Render of an outside wall. Excellent job and finish Turned up when he said, cleaned up and took the time to protect the areas around the job. Would highly recommend to family and friends.
Anthony did an outstanding job pebble-dashing our entire house. It was a challenging project but he handled every aspect with professionalism and care—nothing was ever too much trouble. He worked incredibly hard and maintained a clean and tidy worksite throughout. We couldn’t be happier with the result.
Anthony has done an excellent plastering job today for us in Formby. Repaired a hole on our kitchen ceiling after a leak whilst on holiday. Very good finish and so tidy too! Would Definitely recommend him!
Outstanding work would highly recommend went above and behond with everything, if anyone needs rendering this is your man.
Areas we cover
Based on Liverpool Road in Southport. We work right along the Sefton coast, down into Liverpool, and inland across West Lancashire as far as Preston. Every town below has a page of its own.
Related services
Internal Plastering
Skimming, float and set, ceilings and repairs. Flat walls that take paint evenly and stay that way.
Read moreDry Lining & Plasterboarding
Stud walls, ceilings and insulated linings, set out square, taped and beaded before skimming.
Read moreDecorative Plasterwork
Cornice, ceiling roses and panelled ceilings restored, matched and run in where sections are missing.
Read moreGet a free written estimate
Tell us what the walls are doing and we will come and look. You will get an honest assessment and a written price, with no obligation and no pressure.
Get in touch
Tell us what the walls are doing and we will come and look. Free written estimate, no obligation.
- Phone 07923 545449
- Email anthony9thompson@yahoo.co.uk
- Address
Birkdale Plastering and Rendering
546 Liverpool Road, Southport PR8 3BG - Opening hours Every day, 7am to 9pm