Lime Plastering
We have been working for the last couple of years mostly on the restoration of an old school building. Alongside that, we have been taking on more lime plastering work. We currently have a great team available for all sizes of lime plasterwork. We have been laying up a lot of lime plaster on insulation...
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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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Returning a Cornish cottage to its origin.
Renovating a dilapidated Cornish cottage using hydraulic lime mortar to rejuvenate the aesthetic and cure the damp issues. Carefully hiding years of neglect and botched renovations to create a beautiful family home.
A quirky little place on 3 streets.
When the owner acquired this hidden gem it was suffering from years of neglect. A once fine merchants residence had fallen into severe disrepair along with botched diy and flood damage. The first step was to bag rub 2 sides and point the front. We found dry rot, so once that had been treated a...
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The drapery Redruth
When Stephen told me he had bought the old drapery in Redruth I was keen to get involved with the Renovation. The garden was badly overgrown as you can see from the pictures. Once they had striped back the foliage the stonework revealed was fairly unsightly and in poor shape. Once we stabilised and rebuilt...
Repair to powder house.
This powder house had fallen into disrepair. Many years ago somebody replaced the roof and forgot to put collars on the truss. Over time this caused the building to move and crack. We repaired the cracks by infilling and rebuilding sections using helbar to stitch it all back together. We then replaced the bag rub...
Vine Cottage. Cob Repair
Vine cottage is one of the oldest cottages in Newlyn. When the present owners applied for a mortgage the surveyor discovered that the cob had been cement rendered. As a condition of the mortgage he specified that the cement was removed and replaced with lime mortar. At this point the previous owner contacted us and...
Bag rub render.
Bag rub render or ragging is a brilliant way to create a beautifully traditional breathable render. It can hide a multitude of sins such as previously botched opening infills, damaged stone work, cement lintels or even block extensions. Historically almost all Cornish granite buildings were ragged then painted in milk paint . This created a...
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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...