On this project in Cheshire we were ask to undertake repairs to the Roman Cement Stucco to this Grade II* Listed Building Cheshire. We undertook a survey of the external render to the Listed Building to enable the scheduling of the works. As Restoration Contractors we were able to do all the works in house […]
Our Specialist Restoration Team under took this project in March 2013. The building was a Grade II Listed Building in Rossendale Lancashire. The building was to be used as a children’s home, it was previously a family home. We under took the Lime Pointing work & Stone Cleaning on the project. The first job was
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
This project involved the construction of a New Stone Garage & Landscaping work. There is a Grade 2 Listed Farmhouse on the site, the client required the New Stone garage to be constructed to replicate the Listed Farmhouse. The main Farmhouse house dates back to 1670, archeologists have found lead shot from the civil war
This project involved Lime Plastering the whole of a 5 bedroom Hall in Wigan, Lancashire. The house is a Grade 2* Listed Building, constructed in 1670 from hand made bricks. The house had previously been plastered with a gypsum based plaster. Some of the walls still have the original lime plaster still installed. We had
This listed building in Bolton-by Bowland had water ingress issues caused by then cement based pointing used. The problems with using a cement based mortar for pointing traditional sand stone buildings are that the cement mortars are hard and not flexible. As the listed building moves thermally during the winter and summer months the hard
