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At Heritage Masonry our team of lime experts are highly skilled across a range of services, discover more below.
Lime Plastering
At Heritage Lime in Gloucestershire, we specialize in the traditional craft of lime plastering, a technique requiring specific skills and methods for perfect finishes, especially in restoration and repair projects. Lime plastering is increasingly popular due to its benefits over modern cement-based alternatives, including better breathability, flexibility, and sustainability, making it ideal for historic building restoration.
Our comprehensive lime plastering services cover both internal and external projects. For internal lime plastering, we handle everything from deconstructing and disposing of damaged walls or ceilings, re-lathing, applying lime putty backing plaster, to the final finishing coat. For external lime rendering, we apply render coats, repoint and repair damaged mortar joints and stonework, and conduct necessary restoration for severe damage.
Before starting any work, we provide a free project appraisal with a detailed cost breakdown and our recommendations. We ensure all aspects are agreed upon beforehand and maintain open communication with customers throughout the project, keeping them informed of any new developments.
Choose Heritage Lime for your lime plastering needs and benefit from our expertise and dedication to quality.
Restoration
Older, more traditional properties will typically have used lime mortar for either masonry work or pointing. Lime may have also been used for rendering or plastering. Compared with the materials used in modern buildings, like cement, lime is much softer and therefore more forgiving, making it more appropriate to the fabric of older buildings.
This quality works well with more traditional properties due to the often-insubstantial foundations, this is because it offers a certain elasticity and, in some cases, where cracks appear, it may even heal itself. Another great quality of lime is it’s permeable which allows moisture to evaporate. This prolongs the life of the softer, more delicate building materials that have been used in the older building.
Heritage Masonry specialise in the sensitive repair and restoration of historic buildings. Services for restoration projects include: structural repairs, chimney repairs/ re-building, roof repairs, solving damp problems, traditional paints, consoladents and lime washes, re-pointing, lime plastering and rendering.
Conservation
For conservation work, non-hydraulic lime is typically used in the saturated form better known as ‘Lime Putty’. When the lime putty is matured the result is the purest form of non-hydraulic lime which is ideal for making fine plasterwork and limewash.
Limewash is ideal for conservation works as it produces a dynamic finish as well as protecting from the elements. How often a property needs to be re-limewashed will vary on its exposure, but we can advise on this prior to work commencing.
Stone Masonry
Heritage Masonry are highly skilled in a selection of specialisms, including walling, renovations, restorations, and extensions of older and listed buildings. Our expertise is in stone and lime mortar.
Stonemasonry is a highly skilled craft that involves shaping rough pieces of natural stone. It is often used to repair older stone buildings, creating stunning architectural features including walls, archways, fireplaces, fire surrounds etc.
Our expert stonemasons can work with architects’ drawings or your specifications, completing a variety of services for stonework in the Cotswolds. Contact us today for a free quote.