Originally constructed in the 18th century to serve as a residential dwelling for the Grounds Keeper. Over the years following the building had served a number of different purposes but unfortunately has been derelict for a number of decades and a lot of the original fabric and detailed craftsmanship has been lost to time. Our […]
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Scartho Cemetery Chapels comprises of Grade-ll-Listed Victorian church buildings built in 1888 in around 26 acres of land housing a large graveyard. Originally known as Grimsby Municipal Cemetery, opened its gates for the first time on the 23rd October 1889. The then 23 acre cemetery was a necessity at the time because the old borough
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On this project we had to lime plaster the kitchen area of this period cottage in Bolton Lancashire. We removed the existing gypsum based plaster of the solid walls, this gypsum plaster was not allowing the solid stone wall to breathe so a build up of moisture was present. Once the gypsum plaster was removed
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On this project in Rochdale, Manchester our team of Specialist Lime Plasterers were required to apply a 3 coat lime plaster to classrooms suffering from damp & water ingress. We were sub-contracting for a Manchester based building company, Tomax Building Contractors. The contract was carried out in the school summer holidays in 2012. Our Restoration
This property was undergoing a full restoration program and our team were contracted to complete the Lime Plastering work. We used a Lime Putty based plaster for most of the internal plastering on a solid masonry background. We also used a synthetic lime plaster to plaster the new ceilings which had been boarded with a
Church House is a Lakeland farmhouse located in Eskdale, Cumbria. The Cottage has undergone a complete Restoration and is now used as a self catering holiday rental property. During the restoration of the building our team completed all the internal lime plastering work. We used a NHL Lime Plaster throughout the Cottage. With the Stone walls on
This project involved Lime Plastering a Stone built 1790 Cottage in Roughlee Lancashire. Our Lime Plasterers completed the project in just 3 weeks. We used a Lime Putty based Lime Plaster on this project, with a minimum of 4 coats, due to the random rubble Stonework. We first applied a levelling coat of Lime Plaster
