Venetian plastering in Kettering

Zavoré brings Venetian plastering in Kettering to homeowners and businesses who want a real Italian lime finish on their walls. From our base in Birmingham we supply and install authentic lime based Venetian plaster and a long list of other decorative surfaces, and our own applicators drive over to lay them. You can make a start with a sample board in the shade you like, or a short email with photos to sales@zavore.co.uk.

Tell us a little about the house and the room, and we will tell you which finishes are realistic before anyone picks up a trowel.

Kettering homes, from ironstone to new estates

Kettering grew as a Northamptonshire market town and boomed in the Victorian era on boot and shoe making. Its oldest buildings, around the parish church of St Peter and St Paul with its tall spire, are built in the warm, rusty Northamptonshire ironstone, and the same stone appears in older cottages in the surrounding villages. Boughton House, the Duke of Buccleuch’s great house, lies just outside the town, and Wicksteed Park and the Alfred East Art Gallery are local landmarks.

The shoe trade left Kettering with long streets of Victorian red brick terraces and some former factories, with solid walls that have usually been replastered in patches over the years. Larger Victorian and Edwardian houses sit on the roads leading out of the centre.

Then come the interwar and postwar semis, and a great deal of newer housing, including the large new neighbourhood being built on the eastern side of town. Most of those newer homes are lined with plasterboard, which gives a good flat base once the joints are reinforced.

Suggested finishes for Kettering

• Limewash inside ironstone cottages, where a breathable mineral coat respects the old stone and gives soft, layered colour.
• Marmorino for front rooms and halls in brick terraces, combining a fine stone texture with the breathability an old solid wall needs.
• Venetian plaster in a newer house, where flat plasterboard walls can carry a deep, marble like polish.
• Metallic finishes for a single statement wall behind a bed, a television or a fireplace.
• Tadelakt for a shower or bathroom, laid over a carefully prepared, waterproofed backing.

Browse the full range of colours before ordering your sample.

Booking a Venetian plastering job in Kettering

Photos and a few measurements are enough for a first conversation. Before we price the installation we survey the room, checking the backing wall, its flatness, cracks, damp and movement, how the room is lived in, and how we will reach it and protect the floors and furniture around it.

Some walls are not ready for decorative plaster yet. If yours needs skimming, stripping back or a damp issue solving, you will hear it from us at the survey. With the sample and price agreed, we book your dates, and the plaster is tinted to the approved colour before it leaves Birmingham. Kettering jobs are arranged as a block of days, keeping our applicators on site so each coat follows the last in order.

The coats dry between layers, so a room kept gently warm helps, and any building work, wiring or skimming should be finished and dry before we arrive. The Venetian plaster installation page explains more.

Buying plaster or learning the trade

If a decorator you know is going to do the work, we can tint the materials to your sample and send them to Kettering with tracked delivery. Plasterers and decorators interested in the craft can join our Venetian plaster courses in Birmingham, and trade customers can set up an account through our trade page. Our journal pieces on a Venetian plaster feature wall and metallic plaster walls may help you plan. You can also see every area we cover.

Questions about Venetian plastering in Kettering

Can your applicators come to Kettering?

Yes. They travel from our Birmingham base, and Kettering jobs are planned as a block of days once you have approved the sample and the price.

What should go on the walls of an ironstone cottage?

Old stone walls need to breathe, so limewash or Marmorino are the natural choices. An acrylic coating forms a film and can hold moisture in the wall.

Can I have a metallic feature wall in a new build in Kettering?

Yes. Once the plasterboard joints are reinforced and primed, a new build wall is a good base for a metallic or polished finish.

Do you post materials to Kettering?

Yes. We tint the plaster to your sample and send it tracked, with the primers and wax your decorator will need.

Give us a call on 07592 929191 any day from Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm, or drop an email to sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, rough dimensions and your Kettering postcode. Start by ordering a sample board.