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A smoother coat plaster finish is a very popular and desired finish. The finishing coat is ultra smooth and level, with no lumps or bumps anywhere. The plaster is made of a mortar mix of cement and fine sand in a ratio of 1:3. The mortar is applied with a wooden float, to give the smooth finish, which makes it perfect for painting over or decorating with wallpaper.
Sand faced finish has to be applied in two coats; the first coat is applied with a ratio of 1:4 cement to sand of 12 mm thickness, the second coat is applied after seven days when the first coat is dry and is applied with the thickness of 8mm. The mortar mix for the second coat is a ratio of 1:1 (cement and sand), and is often finished with a sponge to create the effect and keep it level.
Sand face finish can be used for both internal and external walls.
Sometimes referred to as drylining plastering, this process is done by applying a gypsum adhesive to a wall by dabbing blobs (dots) of it across the area, then placing a plasterboard on top, which will become the finished wall.
This type of finish is guaranteed to have a smooth and even finish, making it very easy to apply wallpaper to. This process is also called dry-lining plastering.
A textured wall is pretty self-explanatory - it’s a wall that’s not smooth and is textured. Textured walls can vary from a sandy, grainy look to rough and gritty or patterned. Pristine Plastering can create a textured wall for your home, office or business so that your walls have character and artistic flare.
To create textured walls, we use a mixture of cements, sands and other aggregates depending on your desired look, as well as various tools and brushes to create different effects.
Artex is different from plaster in that it was sold as a material that will leave the ceiling with a textured finish, which meant that a ceiling could be finished without plastering skills and as part of a DIY project. Artex ceilings were hugely popular in Britain in the 1970s, with swirl patterns being the familiar look that still resides in homes today.
Artex is often a feature of 70’s and 80’s style properties and can be difficult to remove from your ceiling and walls. We can remove the look of your artex finish by smoothing it over with fresh plaster. We don’t create new artex, so we only correct a damaged artex ceiling by changing it to a smooth finish.