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Skimming & re-skimming
Walls and ceilings skimmed to a glass-flat finish, ready for a mist coat and a single top coat. Over plasterboard, old plaster or tired paint.
- Walls
- Ceilings
- Level 5
Inverness & the Scottish Highlands
Sculpting
the Highlands
Specialist plastering, lime and Venetian polished finishes for homes and commercial spaces across the north of Scotland. Applied by hand, trowelled until the light has nothing left to catch.
- Free written quotations
- Dust-controlled work
- Fully insured
Full room re-skim
Walls & ceiling
What we do
Finishes that
hold the light
Six disciplines, one standard. Whether it is a single ceiling or a whole house, the walls are set out, prepared and trowelled the same way — slowly, and by hand.
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Venetian & polished plaster
Hand-burnished lime and marble finishes, built up in thin layers and polished to a soft, changing sheen. No two rooms ever the same.
- Lime
- Burnished
- Feature walls
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Plasterboard & drylining
Boarding, taping and skimming for new builds, extensions, loft conversions and garage conversions — square, tight and ready to decorate.
- New build
- Extensions
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Krend & external render
Through-coloured Krend, silicone and monocouche renders — plus lime and harling repairs — detailed to shed Highland rain and hold their colour for decades.
- Krend
- Silicone render
- Harling
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Repairs & making good
Cracked ceilings, water damage, patched doorways and awkward corners brought back to something you simply cannot find.
- Insurance work
- Patch repairs
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Artex & texture removal
Careful removal of dated textures, then a full re-skim. Sheeting, extraction and daily cleaning come as standard, not as an extra.
- Dust control
- Re-skim
External render
Krend, and why
I use it
Krend is a through-coloured render — a bagged, polymer-modified mix that goes onto the wall as a hard, weather-facing coat rather than a finish painted over one. I specify it on boundary walls, extensions and full facades across the Highlands because it is the closest thing to a surface that looks after itself.
Colour goes all the way through
Krend is bagged with its pigment in the mix, not painted on afterwards. A knock or a scrape lifts the same colour it covers.
Built for Highland weather
The silicone-modified mix stays slightly flexible, so it moves with the wall through freeze and thaw instead of cracking.
Sheds rain, lets walls breathe
Water runs off the surface while moisture still finds its way out — which is what a rendered Scottish wall actually needs.
Hand-applied, never sprayed on and left
Trowelled by hand over mesh and beads, then worked to a smooth or lightly textured finish, and detailed at every corner.
Polished plaster
Venetian, the
slow way
Lime and marble putty laid on in three or four paper-thin coats, each one trowelled and then burnished once it has firmed up. Nothing is added to fake the depth — the movement comes from the light catching the stone itself, which is why no two walls finish the same.
Two or three days per wall, sealed with a natural wax or soap so it can be repaired and re-burnished years later rather than painted over.
How it runs
Four stages,
no loose ends
Plastering is unforgiving of a rushed start. Each job is planned from the first survey so the finish stage is quiet, unhurried and clean.
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Survey & written quote
A visit to the property, an honest conversation about finish and timescale, and a fixed written quotation — no ranges, no surprises.
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Protect & prepare
Floors sheeted, furniture moved, openings sealed. Backgrounds checked, bonded and primed so the plaster has something to hold on to.
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Apply & finish
Two coats, laid in and trowelled by hand. Edges cut tight, corners pulled through, surfaces worked until the light stops catching anything.
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Clean handover
Dust swept, sheeting folded, plaster left to cure properly. You get a walk-round, care notes and a date to decorate with confidence.
Selected work
Surfaces, not
showreels
Residential and commercial finishes across the Highlands — from full house re-skins to single burnished feature walls.
Bedroom re-skim
Walls & ceiling
Two-coat skim
Room, walls & reveals
Full room
Skim & dry-out
Bedroom & wardrobes
Walls & ceiling
Two-coat skim
Hallway & landing
Walls, ceiling & doorheads
Skim & dry-out
Walls, ceilings & openings
Whole room
Skim & set
Krend column & reveals
Interior render
Through-coloured Krend
Restaurant frontage
Commercial render
Krend, bead-detailed
Boundary wall
External render
Krend, smooth finish
The Bryant standard
“A good wall is not one you admire. It is one you never notice — until the afternoon light crosses it and there is nothing there but the finish.”
Peter Bryant · Bryant Plastering
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One pair of hands
Bryant works the walls himself. The person who quotes your job is the person who finishes it.
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Priced before we start
Fixed written quotations, itemised by room, so a change of mind is a conversation and never an invoice.
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A clean site, every day
Dust sheeting, negative-air extraction where it is needed, and a swept floor before we leave each evening.
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Insured and accountable
Public liability cover, method statements for commercial work, and a guarantee in writing on every finish.
Reviews
Said about
the work
“Highly recommend! Great communication, turned up on time, and did an excellent job. The plastering was finished to a really high standard, and everything was left clean and tidy afterwards. Peter was very polite and attentive. Very pleased with the result.”
“Did a really fantastic job plastering our extension, I have been in the trade nearly 25 years and its rare to find someone hard working, conscientious and trustworthy, he turned up early, didnt stop working until the job was done and left a high standard of work, you can tell he enjoys his trade. I highly recomend Bryant plastering.”
Where we work
Based in Inverness,
working the north
Most work sits within an hour of Inverness, and longer contracts take us right across the Highlands and Moray. If you are further out, ask — travel is usually part of the quote, not an extra.
Check your area- Inverness
- Beauly
- Muir of Ord
- Dingwall
- Alness
- Tain
- Nairn
- Forres
- Elgin
- Aviemore
- Grantown-on-Spey
- Kingussie
- Fort Augustus
- Fort William
- Ullapool
- Gairloch
- Thurso
- Wick
Enquire
Tell us about
your walls
Send a few details and you will get a reply within one working day, followed by a survey and a fixed written quote. Photos of the space are always welcome.
- 07803 555 685
- bryantplastering@hotmail.com
- Inverness & the Scottish Highlands