Plastering Services Melbourne

Most residential work is new plasterboard on a renovation or an extension, or repair work on a house that has moved. Melbourne clay and wet winters are hard on old plaster, so cracked cornices, sagging ceilings and water damage are our bread and butter.

We patch and texture match so the repair does not read as a repair, and we handle insurance jobs from the first look to the final sand. On commercial sites we work to the builder’s program, sequence around the other trades and keep the place clean. Where a wall will cop critical light or gloss paint, we can take it to a Level 5 finish.

We have completed projects in all the major shopping centres across Melbourne and at Melbourne Airport, so centre management holds no surprises for us: night shifts, dock bookings, hoarding, inductions and a hard handover date. Shop fitting plaster is rarely about the plaster.

It is about turning up when the shopfitter says, closing in the walls and ceilings so joinery and electrical can follow, and never being the trade that holds up an opening.

A suspended ceiling drops a new plasterboard ceiling below the structure and hides ducting, services and an uneven slab. We set the grid out properly, hang it off the structure rather than off the services, and sheet it flat so the ceiling reads as one clean plane.

Where the services above need to stay accessible, an exposed grid ceiling is the answer. Tiles lift out, the electrician gets in, and the room goes back together in minutes. Choose acoustic tiles for a noisy office or a plain white finish for a retail tenancy, in the standard tile sizes.

Metal stud partitions divide a tenancy, an office or an apartment without the cost of building in. The framing does the work, so we build to the wall system specified, at the right stud gauge and centres, with insulation where it is called for.

If a wall has to hold sound back between two tenancies, that gets designed in at the start rather than chased later.

Fire rated construction is the one part of our work where there is no room to improvise. A fire rated wall or ceiling only performs the way the paperwork says if it is built as the tested system: the right board, the right screw pattern, the right sealant at every penetration and junction.

We build it exactly as specified, and we would rather ask than guess.

Bulkheads hide the ducts, beams and plumbing runs nobody wants to look at, and they do a lot of the good work in a modern kitchen or a retail space. Light troughs are the same idea used for effect, a recessed channel that carries LED strip and washes the ceiling in soft light.

Preformed sizes suit most jobs, and we make custom bulkheads when the design asks for it.

Cornice is still the cheapest way to add height and character to a room, and the range runs from a simple cove to deep Victorian and Edwardian profiles. In a period home the trick is matching what is already there, so a new run reads as original.

We also fit ceiling roses under a pendant or chandelier, and can arrange custom mouldings when nothing off the shelf is close enough