Staggered by cost to replaster mid-terrace house, anyone else had quotes recently?

[DebtMassif]

Hi all, I've just had a rough quote for replastering a victorian mid-terrace in the South West. It's a 3-bed but one of the upstairs rooms will become a bathroom. I knew lime would be more expensive than modern plasters but we don't want to keep chasing damp patches around the walls forever and lime should solve the problem as the walls will be able to breathe.

The plasterer was very nice, super knowledgeable and experienced, gave us loads of info and then... and then... he said it would be about £50k! plus VAT!

He also said we would need to be out of the house for 3-4 months with no other work going on at the same time (eek)!

Has anyone else lime plastered their house or gotten as far as getting quotes?

@PrtScn thanks, I'm Manchester/Lancashire border so not a million miles away but not close! How easy was it to find someone? I'm struggling...

Honestly if you’ve been quoted those kinds of prices I’d have a go yourself there’s a couple on Instagram or TikTok that have literally taught themselves to Plaster and you know what they’ve not done a bad job at all.

Plastering is like a ‘master level’ skill. If you can competently get the base coats on though, employ a plaster to put the last or finish coat on. That would be a reasonable compromise.

We got this, too, for our damp basement which had lots of rot, so we had to replace all the timber beams, lintels and windows, and of course all concrete, damp proofing etc and replaster in /panelling on internal walls. This unit is to prevent the rot from coming back. So far, definitely an improvement, no black spots on walls, no internal condensation, no musty basement smell at all.