By the Bouwsector Nederland team, 97 own tradespeople · checked by Geert Jan Hendrik, director · updated on
Bouwsector Nederland is a Dutch contractor that finishes and renovates homes all over the Netherlands from its base in Utrecht. Our office team speaks English, so you can arrange everything with us in English.
Our own wallpaper hangers, plasterers and painters do the finishing, and our four in-house contractor teams take on complete renovations, inside and outside. You receive a free quote by email within 24 hours, based on the fixed prices per m² in our own price list.
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We work for people who are moving into a new-build home, renovating a house they have just bought, or getting a home ready to sell. You can hire us for a single trade or for the whole job.
| Service | What it includes |
|---|---|
| New-build finishing | The bare walls and ceilings of a newly built home made ready to live in: a skim coat where needed, then renovlies, then paint. |
| Wallpapering | Renovlies, glass-fibre wallcoverings and non-woven wallpaper, including removing old wallpaper. |
| Plastering | Walls and ceilings plastered smooth and ready to paint, skim coats, and textured walls made smooth again. Exterior plastering on request. |
| Painting | Walls and ceilings, stairs, interior doors and frames. Exterior painting on request. |
| Complete renovation | We act as general contractor: electrics, walls, floors, kitchen and tiling, inside and outside, plus all the finishing. |
The finishing is done by 97 tradespeople on our own payroll: 40 wallpaper hangers, 32 plasterers and 25 painters. Together they finish more than 600 new-build homes a year, and we have been doing this work for 10 years.
Renovlies, sometimes called renovation fleece, is a paintable fleece wallcovering. We hang it on the walls, caulk the corners and edges, and paint it, as standard in white (RAL 9010 or 9016).
It is the finish most of our new-build customers choose. A new house dries out and settles in its first years, which causes hairline cracks, often at board joints, in corners and above doors. Renovlies bridges and hides those small cracks, so they do not show through the paint.
A complete home in renovlies, with hanging, caulking and painting, takes us 3 days. If the walls first need a skim coat, its drying time comes on top of that.
| Dutch term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Behangklaar | Wallpaper-ready: the joints are filled and the worst unevenness is gone, but the wall is not smooth enough to paint directly. |
| Sausklaar | Ready to paint: plastered smooth enough to paint straight onto. |
| Dunpleister | A thin skim coat of plaster that makes an uneven wall flat, as a base for renovlies. |
| Vooroplevering | The pre-delivery inspection of your new-build home, before you get the keys. |
| Oplevering | The handover: the day you get the keys. |
| Klusopname | Our site survey: we measure up and check the walls before the final price is fixed. |
Many new-build homes are handed over wallpaper-ready. If you paint straight onto such a wall, light falling across it shows every board joint and screw hole. That is why most of our customers choose renovlies, or walls plastered ready to paint, when finishing a new-build home (in Dutch).
Yes. For a complete renovation we take on the whole job as general contractor, inside and outside. You have one point of contact, and we are responsible for every trade.
The construction work, such as electrics, walls, floors, the kitchen and tiling, is done by our four in-house contractor teams of four people each. Our own wallpaper hangers, plasterers and painters do the finishing. In a new-build home, our contractor teams can also fit the floor, the kitchen and the tiling.
You can also hire us for a single job: a bathroom renovation, fitting a kitchen, flooring, an extension, a dormer, new window frames, insulation or electrics, with our own electricians.
We renovate homes for people who are about to sell and for people who have just bought. Large projects are familiar ground: at the moment we are also renovating 150 shops.
A home renovation (in Dutch) starts with a free consultation about what you want, what the house needs and when it has to be finished, for example before you move in. You then receive a plan and a quote for the whole job.
We work with fixed prices per m² from our own price list. Where a price says “from”, it drops as the job gets bigger.
| Work | Price |
|---|---|
| Renovlies or non-woven wallpaper: sanding, hanging, caulking and 1 coat of paint | from € 14.99 per m² (over 150 m²) |
| Glass-fibre wallcovering, same package | from € 16.99 per m² (over 150 m²) |
| Removing old wallpaper | from € 6.99 per m² |
| Plastering walls, smooth and ready to paint, materials included | € 22.99 per m² |
| Plastering ceilings, smooth and ready to paint, materials included | € 23.99 per m² |
| Skim coat, materials included | from € 14.49 per m² (401 m² and more) |
| Painting walls, RAL 9010 or 9016, 1 coat | € 12.99 per m² |
| Painting ceilings, RAL 9010 or 9016, 1 coat | € 13.99 per m² |
| Work at an hourly rate | € 47.50 per hour |
| Exterior painting and exterior plastering | On request |
| Complete renovation: electrics, walls, floors, kitchen and tiling | Custom quote after a free consultation |
Prices exclude VAT; the VAT rate is shown in the quote. Prices from our 2026/2027 price list, valid from 1 September 2026.
Two fixed charges can apply. A one-off call-out charge of €99.99 is added once per job, and jobs smaller than 50 m² carry a small-job surcharge of €249.99.
An example: a home with 220 m² of wall in renovlies costs 220 × €14.99 = €3,297.80 for sanding, hanging, caulking and one coat of paint. With the one-off call-out charge, the total comes to €3,397.79. Every rate and surcharge is on our full price list (in Dutch).
You pay nothing upfront. You pay 50% on the first working day, once all materials are on site and we have started, and 50% at handover.
Is it a big job, such as a whole house? Then we are happy to come and meet you.
No. Our office team speaks English, so you can call, email or send a WhatsApp message in English, and we will answer in English. We send the quote by email and are happy to go through it with you.
During the job, a project manager supervises the work on site, and our office remains your point of contact for any question. We work across the whole of the Netherlands from Utrecht, and we do the site survey at your home wherever you live.
Our customers rate us 4.9 out of 5 in more than 215 reviews on our Google profile, and you can meet the people behind the company (in Dutch).
You will receive your quote by email within 24 hours.
Prefer to call? We speak English: 030 - 207 20 24
Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:00 · from a foreign phone: +31 30 207 20 24
Yes. Our office team speaks English, by phone on 030 - 207 20 24 (Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:00), by email and on WhatsApp. Fill in the form on this page in English and we will reply in English.
We can come and measure up at the pre-delivery inspection (vooroplevering) of your new-build home, so your quote and planning are ready before the handover. The work itself starts once you have the keys, on the day we agree together.
No. You pay 50% on the first working day, once all materials are on site and we have started, and the other 50% at handover.
A complete home in renovlies, with hanging, caulking and painting, takes 3 days. A plasterer covers on average 100 m² a day. If the walls need a skim coat first, its drying time comes on top of that.
Yes. We work across the whole of the Netherlands from our base in Utrecht, and we do the site survey at your home wherever you live.