Plastering and gyprocking services in Newcastle
Newcastle Gyprocker Heroes supply and install plasterboard across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland and the Hunter Valley, Port Stephens and the Central Coast. New home sheeting from the plans is the largest part of the work, and the rest is renovations and repairs to walls and ceilings in houses people are living in while we are in them. We supply the board, the cornice, the compounds and the fixings, we sheet, set and sand, and we leave every job ready for your painter. Licensed and insured, and a quote costs nothing anywhere in the coverage area.
What we sheet, set and repair
The services below split into two halves. New homes, renovations, patios, bulkheads, suspended ceilings and the fire rated and acoustic linings are work on a building that is going up or coming apart, and they are quoted from plans or from a specification. Wall repairs, sagging ceilings, cornice and water damage are faults in a finished house, and those are quoted from a photograph, usually over the phone. Pick whichever describes your job and the page will tell you what decides the price.
New home plasterboard
Every wall and ceiling in a new house, sheeted and set across Newcastle and the Hunter. We take off from your plans and leave the walls ready for the painter.
Learn more about new home plasterboardRenovation plastering
Sheeting, setting and cornice for Newcastle renovations, from one room to a whole house reline, quoted from your photographs.
Learn more about renovation plasteringPlasterboard wall repairs
Holes, cracks and nail pops in plasterboard walls, patched and set in one visit across Newcastle, from $100 and quoted from your photograph.
Learn more about plasterboard wall repairsSagging ceiling repairs
Sagging plasterboard ceilings across Newcastle and the Hunter. A ceiling warns you before it comes down, and a photograph tells us how much warning you have.
Learn more about sagging ceiling repairsCornice repairs and installation
New cornice, square set and cornice repairs across Newcastle. We supply the profile, bed it to a struck line and leave it ready for your painter.
Learn more about cornice repairs and installationSoundproofing plasterboard
Soundchek acoustic board supplied and fixed to the system your builder or certifier specifies, including party walls sheeted up into the roof space.
Learn more about soundproofing plasterboardPatio ceiling lining
Patio and porch ceilings lined across Newcastle. Whether yours can be plasterboard or has to be fibre cement is decided by wind category and salt air.
Learn more about patio ceiling liningWater damage and wet areas
Water damaged walls and ceilings put back in the right board across Newcastle, handed over as a substrate ready for a licensed waterproofer.
Learn more about water damage and wet areasSuspended ceilings
We sheet and set suspended ceilings across Newcastle once the grid is hung. The board grade is checked against the channel spacing before anything goes up.
Learn more about suspended ceilingsBulkhead ceilings
Bulkhead lining across Newcastle from $550 for a 3m x 1m bulkhead. We sheet and set the box, and the corner is what the job is judged on.
Learn more about bulkhead ceilingsFire rated walls and ceilings
Fire grade plasterboard supplied and fixed to the tested system named in your documents, on boundary walls, party walls, shafts and unit ceilings.
Learn more about fire rated walls and ceilingsCommercial plastering
Commercial and multi residential lining across Newcastle. We sheet and set to the tested systems on your drawings, at the level of finish each area needs.
Learn more about commercial plasteringAsbestos in older homes
A guide for older Newcastle homes. What fibro is, who can legally remove it, and why we stop rather than guess. We do no asbestos work.
Learn more about asbestos in older homesThe board and compounds we install
Board, cornice and compounds from the Australian manufacturers a specifier names on a drawing, installed to each manufacturer's own written instructions rather than to habit. Where a wall or ceiling is part of a tested system, the board that system names is the board that goes back, with no substitution.
Every service, available across every region we cover
City of Newcastle
Newcastle CBD, Newcastle East, The Hill, Cooks Hill, Merewether, Bar Beach, The Junction, Hamilton, Islington, Wickham, Carrington, Tighes Hill, Mayfield, Waratah, Georgetown, Lambton, New Lambton, Adamstown, Broadmeadow, Jesmond, Wallsend, Maryland and Fletcher
Lake Macquarie
Charlestown, Kotara, Warners Bay, Speers Point, Boolaroo, Cardiff, Edgeworth, Glendale, Cameron Park, Belmont, Valentine, Eleebana, Redhead, Dudley, Swansea, Caves Beach, Toronto and Morisset
Maitland and the Hunter Valley
Maitland, East Maitland, Rutherford, Lorn, Bolwarra, Thornton, Beresfield, Chisholm, Gillieston Heights, Lochinvar, Farley, Branxton, Greta, Cessnock, Kurri Kurri, Weston and Singleton
Port Stephens
Raymond Terrace, Heatherbrae, Medowie, Williamtown, Fern Bay, Tomago, Salt Ash, Tanilba Bay, Lemon Tree Passage, Salamander Bay, Corlette, Soldiers Point, Nelson Bay, Shoal Bay and Anna Bay
Central Coast
Gosford, East Gosford, West Gosford, Erina, Woy Woy, Umina Beach, Ettalong Beach, Kincumber, Avoca Beach, Copacabana, MacMasters Beach, Terrigal, Wyoming, Wyong, Tuggerah, Watanobbi, Berkeley Vale, Bateau Bay, Long Jetty, The Entrance, Toukley, Budgewoi, San Remo and Lake Munmorah
What people ask before they call a plasterer
How much should I pay a plasterer in Newcastle?
Most plastering is quoted per job rather than at an hourly rate, because the same room can be a day or a week depending on what is behind the lining. Newcastle Gyprocker Heroes publish three figures: new home plasterboard supply and install from $38 per square metre, a small hole repair from $100, and bulkhead lining from $550 for a 3m by 1m bulkhead. Everything else is priced from photographs or from your plans.
Do plasterers do ceilings or walls first?
Ceilings go up first, and then the walls are sheeted up underneath them. Doing it in that order lets the top edge of each wall sheet push up against the ceiling and hold it, so the ceiling is supported along every wall line rather than relying on its fixings alone. It also puts the wall to ceiling junction where the cornice will cover it. A plasterer who sheets walls first has made the ceiling harder to hang and the cornice line harder to keep straight.
What is the difference between plastering and gyprocking?
Gyprocking is hanging sheets of plasterboard on a frame and then setting the joints, and it is what almost every Australian house built since the 1960s has inside it. Traditional plastering means trowelling a wet coat onto masonry or onto lath. Newcastle Gyprocker Heroes do the first of those two. Gyprock is a CSR brand name that has become the everyday word for the board, in the same way people say Esky rather than cooler.
How can you tell a good plasterer?
Look along a finished wall with light raking across it rather than standing square to it, because a flat wall and a wall that only looks flat are indistinguishable from straight on. Ask which level of finish is being quoted, since Level 3 and Level 5 are different amounts of work and different prices for the same room. Ask whether the board grade suits the framing centres. A plasterer who has an answer to those three has read the manufacturer's instructions rather than working from habit.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes. A single hole, one cracked cornice run or one room is a job in its own right with Newcastle Gyprocker Heroes, and there is no minimum of a whole house. Small hole repairs start at $100 and are usually priced over the phone from a photograph, so you get a figure without waiting on a site visit first. Send one photograph of the damage and one of the whole wall from a few metres back.
How long does a room take to sheet and set?
Sheeting a room is quick and setting it is not, because the joints have to be coated more than once and each coat has to dry before the next one goes on. That means most jobs are several visits over several days rather than one long day, and cold or damp weather stretches it. Newcastle Gyprocker Heroes tell you the visits at quote stage rather than at the end, so you can plan the painter around them.
Send us a photo or your plans.
A quote costs nothing and so does the travel.