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By Emily Rivers
Last updated 18th July 2022

Cost of hiring a plasterer for rendering your home

Hiring a plasterer to render the outside of your building costs depend on the size of the project and how many workers are required. Rendering is not a job you will want to do yourself. They might have skilled plasterers and labourers working in unison, one who does the rendering work and the other who mixes the plaster and clears up. 

The average cost of hiring a plasterer in the UK £25 and there are regional variations with London and the surrounding area being more expensive. Rendering a house will take a week or even longer to finish and will require additional support including scaffolding. Expect to pay around £50 per square metre and maybe more. 

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Cost to render different types of property

Plastering the exterior of a home is known as rendering and is done by a qualified plasterer. This uses thicker plaster than interior work, and takes multiple coats to get it right. Rendering is often then painted over, this may or may not be included in the price. To render a small bungalow, expect to pay around £2000. For a 3-bedroom home with 2 storeys, this will increase to around £3500, and for very large homes could be as much as £5000+.

The cost of the scaffolding makes up a sizeable chunk of the price for 2 or more storey homes, so if you live in a large bungalow expect to pay a bit less than the prices we quoted above.


Estimates for common plasterer jobs;

Rates for other trades

Rendering cost in the UK
Rendering cost in the UK (excluding VAT or callout charges)
Location in UKRendering cost
Rendering near Aberdeen£34
Rendering near Amber Valley£44
Rendering near Angus£60
Rendering near Arun£50
Rendering near Ashfield£52
Rendering near Aylesbury Vale£66
Rendering near Barnsley£46
Rendering near Basildon£58
Rendering near Basingstoke & Deane£60
Rendering near Bassetlaw£44
Rendering near Bath & North East Somerset£50
Rendering near Bedford£60
Rendering near Belfast£40
Rendering near Birmingham£46
Rendering near Blackburn£48
Rendering near Blackpool£46
Rendering near Bolton£48
Rendering near Bournemouth£54
Rendering near Bracknell Forest£64
Rendering near Bradford£54
Rendering near Braintree£54
Rendering near Breckland£38
Rendering near Bridgend£44
Rendering near Brighton£50
Rendering near Bristol£50
Rendering near Broadland£38
Rendering near Broxtowe£48
Rendering near Bury£48
Rendering near Caerphilly£46
Rendering near Calderdale£54
Rendering near Cambridge£74
Rendering near Canterbury£56
Rendering near Cardiff£48
Rendering near Carmarthenshire£30
Rendering near Charnwood£36
Rendering near Chelmsford£56
Rendering near Cheltenham£48
Rendering near Cherwell£58
Rendering near Chester£42
Rendering near Colchester£46
Rendering near Conway£38
Rendering near Coventry£44
Rendering near Crewe & Nantwich£44
Rendering near Dacorum£72
Rendering near Derby£44
Rendering near Doncaster£42
Rendering near Dover£52
Rendering near Dudley£46
Rendering near Dumfries & Galloway£40
Rendering near Dundee£48
Rendering near East Ayrshire£40
Rendering near East Devon£34
Rendering near East Dunbartonshire£50
Rendering near East Hampshire£54
Rendering near East Hertfordshire£60
Rendering near East Lindsey£50
Rendering near East Riding£38
Rendering near Eastleigh£72
Rendering near Edinburgh£46
Rendering near Elmbridge£66
Rendering near Epping Forest£64
Rendering near Erewash£46
Rendering near Exeter£40
Rendering near Falkirk£38
Rendering near Fife£60
Rendering near Flintshire£40
Rendering near Gateshead£42
Rendering near Gedling£52
Rendering near Glasgow£48
Rendering near Gloucester£46
Rendering near Guildford£64
Rendering near Gwynedd£42
Rendering near Halton£44
Rendering near Harrogate£46
Rendering near Havant & Waterloo£56
Rendering near Highland£40
Rendering near Horsham£52
Rendering near Huntingdonshire£82
Rendering near Ipswich£46
Rendering near Isle of Wight£68
Rendering near Kings Lynn & West Norfolk£48
Rendering near Kingston-upon-Hull£38
Rendering near Kirklees£58
Rendering near Knowsley£48
Rendering near Lancaster£46
Rendering near Leeds£50
Rendering near Leicester£36
Rendering near Lisburn£44
Rendering near Liverpool£48
Rendering near London£66
Rendering near Luton£62
Rendering near Macclesfield£46
Rendering near Maidstone£60
Rendering near Manchester£50
Rendering near Mid Bedfordshire£62
Rendering near Mid Sussex£50
Rendering near Middlesbrough£84
Rendering near Milton Keynes£60
Rendering near Neath Port Talbot£42
Rendering near New Forest£60
Rendering near Newbury£58
Rendering near Newcastle-under-Lyme£44
Rendering near Newcastle-upon-Tyne£42
Rendering near Newport£48
Rendering near North Ayrshire£40
Rendering near North East Lincolnshire£34
Rendering near North Hertfordshire£62
Rendering near North Lanarkshire£46
Rendering near North Lincolnshire£40
Rendering near North Somerset£50
Rendering near North Tyneside£42
Rendering near North Wiltshire£42
Rendering near Northampton£50
Rendering near Norwich£38
Rendering near Nottingham£50
Rendering near Nuneaton & Bedworth£42
Rendering near Oldham£54
Rendering near Oxford£98
Rendering near Pembrokeshire£32
Rendering near Perth & Kinross£90
Rendering near Peterborough£96
Rendering near Plymouth£46
Rendering near Poole£54
Rendering near Portsmouth£62
Rendering near Powys£30
Rendering near Preston£44
Rendering near Reading£70
Rendering near Redcar & Cleveland£48
Rendering near Reigate & Banstead£64
Rendering near Renfrewshire£52
Rendering near Rhondda, Cynon, Taff£46
Rendering near Rochdale£54
Rendering near Rotherham£40
Rendering near Salford£48
Rendering near Salisbury£52
Rendering near Sandwell£46
Rendering near Scarborough£44
Rendering near Scottish Borders£40
Rendering near Sefton£52
Rendering near Sevenoaks£62
Rendering near Sheffield£40
Rendering near Slough£66
Rendering near Solihull£44
Rendering near South Ayrshire£44
Rendering near South Bedfordshire£60
Rendering near South Cambridgeshire£74
Rendering near South Gloucestershire£50
Rendering near South Kesteven£48
Rendering near South Lanarkshire£36
Rendering near South Oxfordshire£80
Rendering near South Somerset£48
Rendering near South Tyneside£42
Rendering near Southampton£68
Rendering near Southend-on-Sea£54
Rendering near St Albans£70
Rendering near St Helens£48
Rendering near Stafford£50
Rendering near Stockport£48
Rendering near Stockton-on-Tees£78
Rendering near Stoke-on-Trent£44
Rendering near Stratford-on-Avon£36
Rendering near Stroud£46
Rendering near Suffolk Coastal£44
Rendering near Sunderland£42
Rendering near Swale£60
Rendering near Swansea£38
Rendering near Tameside£50
Rendering near Teignbridge£40
Rendering near Tendring£46
Rendering near Test Valley£52
Rendering near Thamesdown£44
Rendering near Thanet£50
Rendering near The Wrekin£40
Rendering near Thurrock£58
Rendering near Torbay£42
Rendering near Trafford£48
Rendering near Vale of Glamorgan£48
Rendering near Vale of White Horse£54
Rendering near Vale Royal£38
Rendering near Wakefield£52
Rendering near Walsall£46
Rendering near Warrington£50
Rendering near Warwick£40
Rendering near Waveney£42
Rendering near Waverley£64
Rendering near Wealden£54
Rendering near West Lancashire£50
Rendering near West Lothian£48
Rendering near West Wiltshire£42
Rendering near Wigan£48
Rendering near Windsor & Maidenhead£66
Rendering near Wirral£48
Rendering near Wokingham£62
Rendering near Wolverhampton£48
Rendering near Wrexham Maelor£38
Rendering near Wychavon£44
Rendering near Wycombe£82
Rendering near York£50