Project Name: Old Burleigh Road
Location: Old Burleigh Road, Broadbeach, Gold Coast
Contractor Details: Builder - 4D Renovations; Plasterer - Skennar and Sons Plastering
Size of Project: 450sq/m, 3-bedroom beach front apartment
Pro Plaster Products Used: Pro Base 40 & 60min, Paper and Fibafuse Tape, Expansion joints, Archway Flexible PVC external angles, Hamilton’s All Purpose Drywall Compound.
The Challenge:
This 17-floor highrise beach-front apartment, which offers sweeping views of Broadbeach and the Pacific Ocean, was undergoing a full renovation to modernise the dated characteristics of the existing apartment. The builder 4D Renovations planned a new design to include an archway feature, raised ceiling, curved walls and light trough in the main room around the perimeter of the ceiling.
The main living area featured LED lights for the light trough and floor-to-ceiling windows to take advantage of the expansive beach views. These features, and the apartment’s beach-facing aspect, required a Level 5 finish throughout, especially in the living area and bedrooms to prevent issues with glancing light showing joint shadows and spoiling the luxury finish.
In addition to coating the main ceiling to give the Level 5 finish, the apartment’s curved walls and archway feature offered a challenge to make sure they were curved correctly, without any flat spots.
Responding to the brief from 4D Renovations, Skennar and Sons Plastering worked with Pro Plaster Helensvale to supply the compounds, angles, screws glue and tools to enable Dale and sons Jamie and Sean to sheet, set, and sand the apartment to Level 5 standard.
The Solution:
The entire interior of the apartment was gutted with Skennar and Sons Plastering completing all metal framing, sheeting, setting, and sanding over a four-day period. They later returned to complete the Level 5 finish to the open area as a preventative to stop the light shining across the ceiling and showing the joint shadow.
As every plasterer knows, glancing light from LED lighting and floor to ceiling windows can show up even the best plasterer's job.
Level 5 was done by rolling Hamilton’s on the ceiling and wiping it gently with a skimming blade to smooth it all together. Once this has dried and given a lite sand, it makes the entire ceiling one uniform texture to reduce the glancing light issue.
Nathan Kozak, Pro Plaster Trade Store Manager Helensvale said a special part of the job was using the Hamilton’s, thinned down to the correct consistency.
“Dale and his boys had to get it just right to use a paint roller and apply it to the ceiling and the smooth out with the skimming knife. If made too wet it will shrink and slop everywhere, too thick and you’ll never roll it let alone skim it.
“This is where you aren’t paying for the materials or the tools, you are paying for the 20 years+ in knowledge and skill, perfecting his trade over a lifetime,” he said.
Dale Skennar said while he had used other products from time to time, he always came back to Pro Plaster.
“I’ve never had any problems using Pro Plaster compounds. Jobs are always left clean, well set with quality workmanship. We strive to finish a job so as to never be called back at a later date to repair our work,” he said.
At Pro Plaster, we offer multiple products for different applications, suitable for any job type, whether it’s a base coat cement, finishing and topping products or a DIY range for truly bespoke solutions.
Pro Plaster products are Australian-made and have been developed and tested in-house for Australian conditions.
We dedicate time and resources, above industry average towards R&D to develop specific solutions for specific challenges and applications that Aussie plasterers face across Australia’s vastly varied climate zones.
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