Lime Plastering is a specialist lime plastering contractor working throughout Bridgend and the wider Mid Glamorgan area. As an established Mid Glamorgan town, Bridgend has a large stock of pre-1919 property built from local rubble stone and slate — walls that were designed to breathe. We restore them using traditional lime plaster, lime render and lime mortar, never cement or gypsum.
Sympathetic repair in Bridgend means matching what is already there — the aggregate colour, the coat thickness, the texture of the original float finish. We take samples from the existing local rubble stone and slate before mixing so new work sits alongside old rather than standing out.
Bridgend and the villages around it retain a good deal of local rubble stone and slate. Where that material is soft — as most traditional Mid Glamorgan walling is — the mortar and plaster must always be softer than the masonry, so it wears sacrificially instead of eroding the stone or brick face.
Lime is flexible, breathable and self-healing. On Bridgend properties built from local rubble stone and slate, it moves with the building instead of cracking away from it, and it protects the masonry rather than the other way round.
Once the survey is agreed, we protect the site, strip back the failed finish, and apply lime in successive coats with proper curing between each. In some of the highest rainfall and wind-driven damp in Britain we control drying with damp hessian or sheeting so the work carbonates evenly rather than cracking.
The jobs below are typical of the work we carry out on Bridgend property — the building types and problems vary, but the answer is always breathable lime rather than cement.
clom-walled smallholding — Cracked and cement-patched panels on a clom-walled smallholding in Mid Glamorgan. Failed infill was cut out, laths and staves renewed where rotten, and the panels made good in haired lime so the frame can move without splitting the finish.
stone longhouse — Weather-facing walls of a stone longhouse taking the full force of some of the highest rainfall and wind-driven damp in Britain. We specified hot-mixed lime, often finished as roughcast or limewashed for weather protection, built the render up in generous coats and protected the work while it carbonated to avoid shrinkage cracking.
converted stone barn — Sagging original ceilings in a converted stone barn near the centre of Bridgend. Sound laths were retained and re-keyed, missing sections re-lathed in riven timber, and the ceiling made good with haired lime plaster to match the surviving profile.
Every property is different, so we do not publish fixed prices. Cost depends on the substrate, the number of coats, access and whether failed cement has to be removed first. We survey the property in Bridgend and provide a written, no-obligation quote.
Lime cures slowly by carbonation. Allow roughly a week per coat as a guide, and longer in some of the highest rainfall and wind-driven damp in Britain. We protect the work and control drying so the finish cures evenly rather than cracking or dusting.
Yes. We regularly work on listed and conservation-area properties across Mid Glamorgan and can supply mix specifications and sample panels for Bridgend conservation officers where consent is required.
External lime work is best carried out between spring and early autumn so it can carbonate before the first frosts. Internal lime plastering in Bridgend can be done year-round with adequate heating and ventilation.
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