M Urwin Dry Lining Specialists has been established since 2002 and is both owned and managed by Michael Urwin. Michael had 17 years experience in the industry prior to starting his own business. The company now employs over 50 employees including sub-contractors, which include several metal fixers, boarders, plasterers, tapers, ceiling and loft insulation fitters, covers and patchers. This allows the company to take on the interior of a house or commercial unit from start to finish.

What is Dry lining?
Dry lining is a generic term applied to the use of (typically) plasterboard on timber or metal frames. Or (in the case of a finish to blockwork walls, on plaster ‘dabs’) as a replacement to conventional building practices (‘wet trades’) where brick or block, or more traditionally lath and plaster would be specified.

The term dry lining strictly applies to the use of plasterboard to replace a sand and cement or wet plaster finish to internal blockwork, although it’s use has become more broadly associated with internal fit out throughout the building. In this application the term studwork (from the timber or metal studs that form the frame to which the boards are fixed) is more commonly used.