Do you do Venetian plastering in Essex?

Yes. Our studio is in Birmingham and we work across the UK, Essex included. The travel is itemised in the written quotation, so there is nothing to discover later.

Yes. Preparation, materials, labour, protection and travel are itemised in writing before we begin, and the number does not move once it is agreed.

Which finishes can I have in Essex?

All of them. We bring the same range to Essex that we use anywhere: polished plaster, Marmorino, microcement, Tadelakt, limewash, liquid metal and marble effect. The choice is made from the sample boards, not from a catalogue.

How long does the finish last?

Lime carries on carbonating for years, so the surface hardens as it ages rather than degrading. It does not chip, peel or date the way paint does.

Polished Plaster Essex | Microcement & Venetian Plaster

Q: What does a project in Essex start with?

A sample panel in your exact finish, colour and sheen, made for your wall and left with you to live with. Nothing proceeds until you have signed it off.

02 Why Finest Plastering

What you get with us

IOne trade, done properly

We do not skim, we do not take general plastering, and we do not pass work on. Decorative lime, applied by hand, is all we do.

IILime from Italy, nothing else

It comes through Zavorè, who import it. We know what is in it because we have asked, and we have never found a reason to change.

IIIOn architects' specifications

Including a Grade II* listed building, which is as high as listing goes.

IVThree boards for your wall

Made before you commit to anything, so the decision is made with the finish in your hand.

VA fixed price, written down

Agreed before we start. Signed means settled.

Ask for your three samplesThree boards, your colour, your wall

03 Proof

Proof, not promises

Three of our own projects, as they were handed over.

Lime finish to a listed-building specification

Heritage, hotel conversion

Donington Hall

Donington Hall, Grade II* listed, turned into a hotel for MotorSport Vision. Every finish in lime, to the conservation specification.

See the case study

Media wall in dark marble effect with gold veining

Dark marble effect with hand-drawn gold veining

Residential, media wall

A marble wall with no marble in it

Dark marble effect from floor to ceiling, the gold veins drawn in by hand. The whole wall is plaster, polished in place.

View this project

Nightclub feature wall in black and bronze textured plaster

Black and bronze textured plaster, close detail

Hospitality, nightclub walls and pillars

Black and bronze, worked by hand

A working nightclub's walls and pillars in black and bronze, the texture built up and worked back by hand.

See the full set

See the full gallery

04 The process

How a job runs

No mystery, no drift. Most projects run to this shape, and you know the next step before you take the current one.

Day one

We talk

A call or a site visit. We look at the substrate and how the room is used, then tell you which system actually suits it.

Week one

Your sample

A panel in your exact finish, colour and sheen, made for your wall and left with you to live with. Nothing proceeds until you have signed it off.

Week two

Fixed quotation

Itemised in writing: preparation, materials, labour, protection. Nothing hidden in the rate. The number does not move once agreed.

On site

The work

Floors and joinery protected, dust controlled, coats built and burnished to the sampled standard. Clean site every evening.

Handover

Yours

Snag walk, aftercare guidance, and a surface that keeps improving with age. We stay reachable afterwards.

Book a free online consultationFree, and it comes with a sample panel

05 The finishes

Six finishes, and how to tell them apart

Polished plaster

Lime and marble flour, worked to a mirror. The classic Venetian finish, and the one that shows every flaw in the wall beneath.

Marmorino

A grainier marble plaster, matt or softly burnished. The one most rooms end up with, because it forgives and it lasts.

Microcement

Two millimetres of seamless cement over whatever is there, tiles included. Floors, bathrooms, showers.

Tadelakt

Lime compressed with a stone and sealed with olive-oil soap, as Morocco has done it for centuries. Made for water.

Limewash

A brushed lime paint rather than a trowelled plaster. Matt, cloudy, calm.

Liquid metal

Metal particles applied like plaster and ageing like metal. Bronze, brass, copper and iron.

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06 Essex

Finest Plastering in Essex

We work across Essex, which has a lot of substantial houses: older stock in Brentwood, Loughton and Epping, and a great deal of new-build and self-build on larger plots around Chelmsford, Billericay and Ingatestone. The brief here is often a complete interior: a statement entrance hall, an open-plan kitchen wall, a media wall and a master bathroom, all chosen together.

New-build and self-build means plasterboard and a flat, dry substrate, which is the easiest start a decorative finish can have. Polished plaster and marble-effect feature walls are the usual request, with microcement in the bathrooms. In the older Epping and Loughton houses we check what is under the skim before anything goes on.

Everything about how we work — the samples, the fixed price, the six finishes — is on our main Venetian plastering page. This page is about Essex.

Chelmsford Brentwood Loughton Chigwell Epping Billericay Ingatestone Colchester

We cover the whole of Essex and the towns around it. If your address is not listed, ask anyway.

Get a fixed written priceIn writing, before we start

07 Questions

The questions people ask first

Are you local to Essex?

Yes. We work across Essex, from Chelmsford out to Ingatestone and Colchester, and a job here is planned as a single visit rather than stretched across weeks.

What do you recommend for a new-build or self-build in Essex?

A new build is plasterboard and a dry, flat substrate, which is the easiest start a decorative finish can have. Polished plaster or marble effect on the feature walls, microcement in the bathrooms, and all of it chosen from boards before the decorators arrive.

How does a job begin?

With a sample board, made in your finish and colour and left on your wall for a few days. You sign that off before anything else happens, or we make another one.

Will the price change?

No. It is itemised in writing before we start, preparation through to protection, and once it is signed that is the number.

How long will you be on site?

Three to five days for one feature wall, because lime has to cure between coats. A whole room or a bar is planned as a block with the dates agreed in writing.

Does it last?

It gets harder with age. Lime carbonates for years after it goes on, so the wall is tougher at ten years than at one, and it does not chip or peel like paint.

Do you work in bars and restaurants?

Yes, and usually overnight. Bar fronts, feature walls, hotel receptions and dining rooms, protected, worked and handed back before service.

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