Mansion flat, full renovation with lime plaster and external hydrophobic render
A modern bathroom along with a separate toilet was fitted. d The old shutters and original floor boards new lime plaster to insulation rendered external walls and lime render and lime render boards all fitted to internal partitions. w We managed to save many original features along with using old techniques like wooden dowl on...
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St Leven Church
Last year we were chosen to repoint St Leven church tower. We were asked to point this grade 1 listed church last year. It is a beautiful historic building and we were honoured to undertake the task. Some sections are over 800 years old. We have to be extremely careful when breaking out as we...
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Little Keigwin in Moushole
The oldest cottage in Moushole Cornwall. This property was lime rendered into Cellnit lime render boards externally. Then painted in Beecks Beeckacil tinted hydrophobic tinted mineral coating.
It was built to conservations requirements and ended up
Looking truly beautiful for many years to come.
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Hobbit hole.
We were asked by a fantasy writer if we could build him a garden wall that wouldn’t look untoward with a golem standing on it or a hobbit walking through. The door is designed around hobbit hole in The lords of the rings. The alcoves and stone work are beautifully done. The client is yet...
Recent Technical Issues
Due to a catastrophic error the last two years of my blog have been lost into the digital graveyard. I have started to attempt to reconstruct the blog covering the last few years projects. Over the next few weeks I hope to post about a couple of large projects I have recently been working on...
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Lower Town
View from kitchen Lime and timber Natural slate floor. Master bedroom with reclaimed victorian fire place. All the timber in this property came from a locally fallen tree. All structural timber, stairs and porch out of the same tree. the second room downstairs with a new opening to the courtyard . View of the main...
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Colenso Cottage
This was a lovely little project . We worked alongside a standard builder. ragging the outside and pointing up the stairs and the Inglnook. The areas of lime pointing and the use of lighting have really worked giving this house a lovely feel. The sunlight on lime pointing up on the landing. Landing area pointed...
Rosevidney Manor. Pointing job.
We are hacking out and repointing two sections of different ages. One section was built in the 17 hundreds. The other is Edwardian. We are attacking the Edwardian section first. This is challenging due to the hardness of the point being removed. And the small size of the stone.
Colenso ragg render.
We have recently finnished ragging this lovly farm house. We also replaced a few of the slate cills. After a couple of months curing time we will be painting it with a hydrophobic lime wash. At the moment we are weathering the storms lime pointing the interior. It was lucky to have some nice warm...
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Balwest Church Rooms
We lime ragged this old Sunday school. Then Painted it with beeks beakasil hydrophobic lime wash. The methodist committee and the architects were very pleased with the result Six months on and you still need sunglasses when looking at the building in a sunny day.
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Granite Barn Repoint Gwenver
We Were called in to repoint a barn conversion . It was a straight forward job. Completed in a couple of weeks
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Trevorgans surf shack
This was a a beautiful but damp little property. We repointed and ragged the exterior, Rebuilt the steps, And Lime grouted the walls.