Best plasterers in Stirling, Scarborough & Osborne Park (2026)
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These are the best-reviewed plasterers working the Stirling belt: Scarborough, Trigg and North Beach on the coast, Innaloo, Doubleview, Karrinyup and Gwelup through the middle, and the Osborne Park, Herdsman, Balcatta and Tuart Hill light-industrial strip where most of the corridor’s established plastering businesses are actually based. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. This is a short list and we want to be upfront about why: the Stirling search is dominated by one franchise brand running separate listings for Stirling, Floreat and North Beach off a single website, none with a street address, and by plaster products suppliers whose Google category says one thing and whose reviews say another. Strip those out and three operators qualify. We list three rather than pad to five. Below the list you’ll find what plastering costs in Perth in 2026, the WA licensing position that almost nobody explains correctly, the red flags worth walking away from, and the questions we’d ask before hiring.
Featured plasterers
These spots are for plasterers working Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park and Balcatta who want to stand out on this page. None are taken yet, so the full review-ranked list is right below. That ranking is earned off Google reviews and never for sale. Are you a plasterer in the Stirling area? Featured spots start at $50 a year.
Get a Featured spot ▸How we ranked these
- Google reviews do the ranking. We start with every operator’s live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled fresh from Google Maps across Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park, Balcatta, Innaloo and the surrounding suburbs.
- Volume matters as much as the score. We weight each rating by its review count against a fixed baseline, which is why a 4.4 across eleven reviews and a 5.0 across three land close together rather than miles apart. Read the entries as well as the order — these three are very different businesses.
- Verified locally, or cut. We open the Google Maps place page for every candidate rather than trusting the search result card, because the card’s trade category is frequently wrong. We check the pinned coordinates, the street address and the operator’s own website.
- One brand, one entry — and only where it has a base. A single plastering franchise runs separate Google listings for Stirling, Floreat, North Beach, Joondalup, Clarkson and Landsdale off one website and one call centre. The Stirling and North Beach listings carry no street address at all. None made this page. That is not a judgement on their work; it is a judgement on what we can verify.
- Plasterers, not plaster shops. This corridor has several long-established plaster products businesses — mouldings, cornice, sheet supply — with strong ratings earned largely on counter service and product range. They were excluded. So were a custom home builder and a remodeller that both surface on this search.
- Three names, honestly. Our floor is a 4.3 rating, a genuine review history and a verifiable local base. Three operators cleared it. We could have reached five by widening the map into Perth city or Yokine, or by counting franchise listings separately — both would be padding, so we didn’t.
- Paying never buys the queue. When a business pays for a “Featured” spot it’s marked as such. The review-based order below does not change to favour a payer. Right now, no spots are sold.
F&G Rendering
A perfect 5.0 from a West Coast Highway address in Scarborough. The record is short at 4 reviews and we will not pretend otherwise, but it is the most consistent and the most current of the three: every review describes the same sequence — a clear, fast quote, a courteous crew, work finished to standard and on time — and the owner answers each one personally. Jobs described include rendering work in Tuart Hill and around the coastal suburbs, matching existing finishes rather than starting fresh. The listing has been active recently with owner photos added this month, which matters when you are judging a small operator: it tells you the business is being run, not parked. Rendering and texture are the core offering here rather than plasterboard sheeting.
View listing & contact ▸Plasterwise Solid Plastering Enterprises
By far the largest and longest-established business on this page, and the one whose Google profile most understates it. Plasterwise operates from Balcatta Road in Stirling Gate and has been plastering across greater Perth for more than thirty years, working with commercial builders as well as homeowners. Their published finish range is genuinely broad — Venetian polished plaster, acrylic texture, sand finish render, white set, glass face render and fairing skim coat — which is a wider specialty menu than any other operator in this corridor. The caveat, stated plainly: their Google listing is unclaimed and carries only 3 reviews, the most recent nine years old. That is a marketing gap, not evidence about the work; the business, the address and the website are all live and current. Judge this one on the portfolio and on references rather than on the star count, and get the usual written quote.
View listing & contact ▸Lenzo Plasterers
The longest review record on this page — 11 reviews at 4.4 — from a Guthrie Street base in Osborne Park. Claude runs the quoting and a named team does the work, and the positive reviews are specific in a way that is hard to fake: rerendering a front facade, texture coats around a garage, high-standard external rendering with the trades described as courteous and efficient. We are showing the 4.4 rather than rounding it up: there is a recent one-star review complaining about gates left closed against instructions and a colour mismatch in a cement patch, and it is the sort of complaint that tells you to be explicit about site access and colour matching before work starts. Weigh it against eight years of consistent five-star external work. If your job is a whole-facade render rather than an interior patch, this is the team with the most of that work behind them.
View listing & contact ▸What plastering actually costs in Perth (2026)
Plastering is priced three different ways depending on the job — by the hour for repairs and small patches, by the square metre for sheeting and ceilings, and by the lineal metre for cornice — which is why quotes for the “same” job can look nothing like each other. The biggest single variable is whether you are working on a ceiling or a wall: ceiling sheets are heavier, need temporary propping and are far harder to finish without a visible mark, so expect roughly 20–30% more than the equivalent wall area. The second is who supplies the board. Some Perth plasterers include sheet in the price and some expect you to have it on site. These are indicative Perth-metro ranges from published 2026 pricing, a guide rather than a quote, so confirm inclusions and GST on the written quote.
| Job | Typical range | What pushes it up |
|---|---|---|
| Plastering labour (hourly) | $52-$125/hr | Height and access, patch-matching an existing texture, awkward small jobs; Perth jobs average around $81/hr |
| New plasterboard, supplied and fixed per m² | $26-$68 | Sheet thickness and grade, cutting around services, ceiling vs wall |
| Ceiling replacement per m² | $37-$89 | Propping, insulation and wiring above, whether the old ceiling has to come out first |
| Cornice, installed per lineal metre | $16-$63 | Profile size, ornate or heritage profiles, number of mitres and returns |
| Plasterboard supply, if you buy it separately | +$8-$18/m² | Wet-area, fire-rated and acoustic board all cost more than standard sheet |
External rendering, which is most of what this corridor’s operators do, prices differently again — usually per square metre of wall area with scaffolding and surface preparation as separate items. A facade that needs old render removed before the new coat goes on is a substantially bigger job than a fresh render over sound brickwork, so make sure the quote says which one you are buying.
Do plasterers need a licence in WA? (the honest answer)
No — and this is the single most misunderstood thing about hiring a plasterer in Western Australia, so it is worth being precise. Building and Energy, the division of the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety that regulates licensed building work in WA, registers or licenses builders, building engineers, building surveyors, electricians, gasfitters, owner-builders, painters and plumbers. Plastering is not on that list. There is no plasterer’s registration in Western Australia to hold, to check or to lose.
The contrast with painting is the useful one. A painter carrying out paid painting work valued at $1,000 or more in the Building Services Board’s jurisdiction must be a registered painting contractor. A plasterer rendering an entire facade needs no equivalent registration at all. So if a plasterer tells you they are “fully licensed”, they are either talking about something else — a builder’s registration, a white card, an ABN — or they are misrepresenting. Ask which licence, and for the number, and look it up on Building and Energy’s online licence search.
That does not leave you unprotected; it just moves the protection from the licence to the contract. Your real safeguards are these, and they apply whether or not the tradesperson is a registered builder:
- The contract must be in writing. The Home Building Contracts Act 1991 covers fixed-price home building work between $7,500 and $500,000. The contract has to be in writing and signed by both parties, and before you sign, you must be given a copy of the “Notice for the homeowner” setting out your rights.
- The deposit is capped at 6.5%. For contracts in that $7,500–$500,000 band, 6.5% of the contract price is the statutory maximum a builder or tradesperson can ask for before starting work.
- Progress payments follow the work. You should only be paying for work actually done or materials actually delivered to site. Paying ahead can affect a later insurance claim.
- Home indemnity insurance over $20,000. Building work that requires a building permit and is valued over $20,000 must carry home indemnity insurance, covering loss of deposit up to $40,000 and incomplete or defective work up to $200,000 if the builder dies, disappears or becomes insolvent.
- You have three years to complain. A home building work contract complaint can be lodged with the department within three years of the contract date. Building and Energy is on 1300 489 099.
Don’t get ripped off: red flags
- “Cash job, no paperwork.” For anything over $7,500 a written signed contract is not a formality, it is the law — and it is the only thing that gives you a complaint pathway later.
- A deposit over 6.5%. On a contract in the covered range this is a straightforward breach, and it is the most common early sign of an operator with cash-flow problems.
- Vague claims of being “licensed” or “certified”. There is no plastering licence in WA. Ask exactly what the claim refers to.
- A render quote that doesn’t mention preparation. On external work, what happens to the existing surface before the new coat goes on is most of the job. If it is not in the quote, it is not in the price.
- No answer on dust and protection. Sanding plaster is the messiest stage of any renovation. A crew that has not thought about drop sheets, taping off doorways and extraction has not done many occupied houses.
- Colour and texture matching left vague. Two of the complaints we read across this corridor came down to a patch that did not match. Agree the match method and who signs it off before work starts.
- A “local” business with no address, no website and a mobile number. Service-area listings are legitimate, but combined with no verifiable base they leave you nothing to chase if the job goes wrong.
Before you hire: quick checklist
- Get it in writing, itemised. Preparation, sheet or render supply, set or skim, cornice, sanding, rubbish removal and GST as separate lines.
- Confirm who supplies the material. This one line moves the price by $8–$18 per square metre on sheet work and is the most common cause of a quote comparison being meaningless.
- Agree the finish standard. Ask what level of finish you are getting and whether it is paint-ready as quoted.
- Check ABN, public liability and workers’ compensation. Ask for the certificate of currency, and ask about workers’ comp if a crew rather than one person is coming.
- References for the same kind of work. External render, plasterboard sheeting, ceiling repair and Venetian polished plaster are four different skills. Ask to see a recent job like yours — in person if it is a whole facade.
- Ask about drying and painting times. New render and new plaster both need to dry before they are painted, and rushing that stage is a common source of later cracking and patchy paint.
Frequently asked
How did you rank these plasterers?
By their live Google star rating weighted by the number of reviews behind it, pulled from Google Maps across Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park, Balcatta, Innaloo and the surrounding suburbs. Every listing was verified by opening its Maps place page — not just the search result card — and checking the pinned coordinates, the street address and the operator’s own website. Nobody paid to be on this list, and the order does not change for money.
Do I need a licensed plasterer in Western Australia?
There is no such thing. WA’s Building and Energy division registers builders, building engineers, building surveyors, electricians, gasfitters, owner-builders, painters and plumbers — plastering is not a registered trade here. Your protection comes from the contract instead: a written, signed contract is required for home building work between $7,500 and $500,000, the deposit is capped at 6.5%, and work over $20,000 that needs a building permit must carry home indemnity insurance.
What should plastering cost in Perth right now?
As a guide: roughly $52–$125 an hour for labour with the average around $81, $26–$68 per square metre for plasterboard supplied and fixed, $37–$89 per square metre for a ceiling replacement, and $16–$63 per lineal metre for cornice. Ceilings run 20–30% above walls. Always confirm whether material supply and rubbish removal are included.
What’s the difference between solid plastering and plasterboard?
Solid plastering is a wet trade — sand-cement render or texture applied to brick or block, inside or out. Plasterboard (often called drywall or by the brand name Gyprock) is sheet fixed to a frame and then set and sanded at the joins. This corridor skews strongly towards the solid trade: all three operators here do render and texture, and only one is primarily a sheeting business. Say which one you need when you ask for a quote.
Why is the top-ranked business the one with the fewest reviews?
It isn’t, quite — the weighting puts a 5.0 across four reviews marginally ahead of a 4.4 across eleven, and the three scores land within 0.03 of each other. When a list is this tight the order is close to a tie and the entries matter more than the ranking. Read what each one actually does: F&G for current, responsive rendering work, Plasterwise for scale and specialty finishes, Lenzo for facade work with the longest track record.
Why only three names?
Because that’s how many passed every check: a Google rating of at least 4.3 with a genuine review history, a verifiable base in the Stirling corridor, and plastering as the actual trade. This search returns a franchise brand running three separate addressless listings in this corridor alone, plaster products suppliers rated on counter service, a custom home builder, a remodeller, and a long tail of no-review listings. We could have reached five by widening the map or counting the franchise listings separately. Both would be padding, so we listed the three that qualify.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 26 August 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.