St Oswald’s Church stands on the banks of the River Rothay in the centre of Grasmere and is a Grade I listed building that dates from the 1250AD. Up until the 1890s the church was rendered in lime. In the 1890s the lime render was removed, and the pointing raked out. This was replaced with […]
On this Lime Rendering project in Preston Lancashire we were asked to remove the existing cement based render from the brick wall. After removing the cement based render from the wall we used our low pressure wet blasting system to remove the modern paint from the brickwork. The system works on the same principle as a
On the project Near St Bee’s in Cumbria we were asked by the client to re-render the front & rear elevations of their Grade 2 Listed home. The stonework had been pointed with a cement based mortar in the past. The client wanted the lime render to be a ashlar lined finished stucco. We first
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 project in Darwen Nr Blackburn Lancashire involved Lime Rendering the rear elevation of this end terrace property. Our Team of Restoration Builders took 4 weeks to complete this project. The property had a cement based render on with a pebble dash finish. This was removed using small air tools. Due to the limited working
This project involved removing the existing cement based render from the gable end wall of a 17c cottage. The elevation was then cleaned & a new Lime Based Render coat was applied. The finish on the Lime Render Coat was a textured Roughcast. The project was completed within the 3 weeks time slot allocated. The
On this project we had to remove isolated patched of failed Lime Render applied by others. We had a time scale of 8 weeks to complete the work. Our team of Restoration Building Contractors come with many years of experience. We have completed many Lime Rendering project across the UK. Our expert team of Builders
This oak frame building has been erected on the rear elevation of a Grade II listed building. The planning was passed as old plans of the Listed Buildings shows a section of timber frame building. The old timber frame building was demolished a long time ago after it fell in disrepair. The new oak frame
