Recent content by Al92

Thank you for letting me know, really appreciate it. I've sent @BritishGypsum a message. Do you know them to be active on here?

I wondered if anyone here can recommend a plasterer in South East London please? We are at the stage of needing a report by a professional for the small claim procedure.

Final post, but it's been helpful to get your responses thank you. Even if we are providing comedy value in the extent of our being conned... When we realised he had not removed the wallpaper (and it was definitely patterned wall paper not lining paper- I have photos of it before) we asked why...

Thank you for the advice

Thank you

I appreciate you all think I'm stupid for being so badly conned on price but does anyone have any advice regarding our rights to money back or job being redone given that he put the mesh and plaster on paper and essentially made the whole job pointless?

Yes, it was £2500 in total. We thought we were paying for an expensive process in using the mesh on our old walls. We realise now we've been well and truly ripped off even if he had done the job properly and removed the wall paper.

Yep I know, we've been really naive in trusting his advice that mesh was a requirement for our walls and accepting that it was an expensive requirement at that. As Brimstone says trading standards probably worth a go. Though the agreed price is our fault, I'm gathering that he's not done a job...

He told us the mesh was necessary because we live in an Edwardian maisonette so the walls are old. He said this would drive up costs but we accepted it because we thought the walls probably weren't in great condition and would need an element of repair once paper was removed. He charged £33 per...

So you would all put render mesh and plaster directly over wallpaper. With no mention to the client that this is what you're going to do and despite the fact that for all other jobs you've done for the same client have involved wall paper removal?

Hi all, I'd really appreciate an opinion on some work we had done recently. Last year we used a plasterer to do our hallway and living room and they did an excellent job. So this year when we decided to have our spare room done we asked them to do it. Same guys under a different man. They quoted...