Joinery, Plastering & Decorating
Looking for home improvements in Preston? Preston Home Improvements builds fitted wardrobes and media walls, plasters walls and ceilings, and decorates the finished room. One firm, three trades, from a single job to full renovations.
What we do
Everything we do falls under joinery, plastering or decorating. Pick a service to read what is involved, or tell us about the room and we will take it from there.
Fitted wardrobes, media walls, panelling, skirting and architrave, loft conversions and whole-room transformations.
Decorative plastering, taping and jointing, skim finishes and wall preparation.
More about plasteringInterior painting, wallpaper hanging, coving installation and full woodwork finishing.
More about decoratingOur speciality
Bespoke built-in fitted wardrobes are our speciality. A fitted wardrobe is built for one wall in one house, so it uses every inch of it: floor to ceiling, wall to wall, with nothing lost to the gaps a freestanding wardrobe leaves at the top and the sides.
Renovations
A renovation goes wrong when the trades arrive in the wrong order: decorating before the plaster is dry, or skirting fitted before the walls are skimmed. With all three trades in one firm, the order looks after itself.
Old fittings come out. Stud walls, frames for a media wall or wardrobe and door linings go in while the room is bare.
Walls and ceilings are boarded where needed, then skimmed or taped and jointed. Everything messy and wet happens now.
Fresh plaster has to dry right through before it is painted. Rushing this stage is the usual cause of peeling paint.
Skirting boards, architrave, panelling, mouldings and fitted furniture go on to the finished walls.
Filling, caulking and priming, then paint, wallpaper and the woodwork finish. The room is ready to use.
Home improvements, Preston
Preston’s houses come in every age. There are streets of red-brick terraces in Ashton-on-Ribble, Deepdale and Ribbleton, with chimney breast alcoves in every room and plaster that has seen a century of redecorating. There are bay-fronted semis in Fulwood and Penwortham with picture rails and tall skirting. And there are new estates at Cottam and Ingol, where the walls are sound but the rooms are plain and short of storage.
Each asks for something different. An old terrace often needs its walls putting right before anyone picks up a brush, and its alcoves are made for fitted wardrobes. A newer house is more likely to want panelling, a media wall and colour. Because we do the joinery, the plastering and the decorating ourselves, we can start wherever your house needs us to.
Decorator, Preston
Decorating is what everyone sees, and most of it is preparation. A decorator spends longer filling, sanding, caulking and priming than putting on the final coat, because paint only looks as good as the surface beneath it.
That is why it helps when your decorator is also the plasterer and the joiner. If a wall needs skimming, a ceiling needs coving or the skirting has had its day, it is dealt with as part of the same job, and the finish goes on to a surface that deserves it.
How it works
Call 07404 724921 or send the form. Say what you have in mind, or simply what is wrong with the room as it is.
We see the space, measure up and talk through the options with you.
A price for the work, so you know where you stand before anything starts.
Carried out in the right order and left clean, tidy and finished.
FAQs
Preston Home Improvements does. We carry out joinery, plastering and decorating for homes in Preston and the surrounding area, from a single room of new skirting boards to a full renovation. Bespoke built-in fitted wardrobes are our speciality. Call 07404 724921 or send the enquiry form for a quote.
Three trades. Joinery: fitted wardrobes, media walls, wall panelling and decorative mouldings, skirting boards and architrave, loft conversions and room transformations. Plastering: skim finishes and wall preparation, taping and jointing, and decorative plastering. Decorating: interior painting, wallpaper hanging, coving installation and full woodwork finishing.
It depends on the size of the room, the condition of the walls, the materials you choose and how much of the work is joinery, plastering or decorating. A wall of fitted wardrobes, a re-skimmed ceiling and a painted bedroom are very different jobs. We do not publish a price list because no two houses are alike. Call 07404 724921 or send the form, tell us about the room, and we will arrange to see it and give you a quote.
Yes. Renovations are where having three trades in one firm helps most. We can strip a room back, put the walls and ceiling right, fit new joinery such as wardrobes, panelling and skirting, then decorate it, in the right order and without waiting for separate trades to become available.
Yes. Decorating is one of our three trades. As a decorator in Preston we paint walls, ceilings and woodwork, hang wallpaper and fit coving. You can book us for decorating on its own, or to finish a room we have plastered or fitted out.
For awkward spaces, usually yes. A fitted wardrobe is built floor to ceiling and wall to wall, so it uses space a freestanding wardrobe wastes above and beside it, and it can be shaped around alcoves, chimney breasts and sloping ceilings. The inside is arranged around your own clothes and storage. The trade-off is that it stays with the house when you move.
A skim coat on plasterboard often takes around a week, and thicker plaster or a cold, closed-up room takes longer. It is ready when it has turned an even pale pink with no dark patches. The first coat of paint should be a thinned mist coat, which soaks into the plaster and gives the later coats something to grip.
It is a way of finishing plasterboard without skimming the whole wall. The joints between the boards are covered with tape and filled with jointing compound in several coats, each wider than the last, then sanded smooth. Screw heads are filled the same way. It involves far less water than wet plaster, so decorating can start sooner.
Yes, a media wall can be designed around a television recess, shelving, storage and an electric fire. The frame has to be built to the fire maker’s stated clearances, and any new wiring needs to be done by a registered electrician before the wall is boarded. Tell us what you want the wall to hold when you get in touch.
Often not. Many loft conversions on houses fall under permitted development, provided they stay within set limits on size and appearance. Flats, listed buildings and homes in conservation areas are treated differently. Whatever the planning position, a loft conversion always needs Building Regulations approval. Preston City Council can confirm what applies to your address.
Preston and the places around it, including Fulwood, Ashton-on-Ribble, Penwortham, Ingol, Cottam, Ribbleton, Walton-le-Dale, Bamber Bridge, Leyland, Longridge and Kirkham. The full list is on our coverage page. If your area is not listed, ring 07404 724921 and ask.
Where we work
Preston, South Ribble and the towns and villages around the city.
Call or message Preston Home Improvements and tell us about the room. We will arrange to see it and give you a quote.
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