Burgess Hill is a smaller West Sussex town with a high proportion of older property, and its older buildings were put up long before modern materials arrived — timber frame, flint and soft brick dominate the pre-1850 stock. Our Burgess Hill lime plastering team applies authentic lime plaster, external lime render and lime pointing so those walls stay dry, stable and original.
Sympathetic repair in Burgess Hill 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 clay tile-hung and timber frame before mixing so new work sits alongside old rather than standing out.
Most of our Burgess Hill work involves clay tile-hung and timber frame. In West Sussex that usually means timber-framed hall houses and Georgian townhouses, where original lime plaster survives on lath internally and lime render or pointing protects the wall outside.
Using lime in Burgess Hill is a conservation requirement as often as a technical one. It keeps the property eligible for heritage consent, preserves original detailing, and gives a soft, hand-finished surface no modern board can replicate.
We start with a free survey at the property in Burgess Hill, opening up a small area where necessary to see the substrate. From there we specify the mix — usually hot-mixed lime or NHL 2 with hair reinforcement for lath and frame — and issue a written quote covering preparation, coats, curing time and finish.
From timber-framed hall houses to later solid-wall housing, here is the sort of lime plastering, render and pointing work we deliver in and around Burgess Hill.
flint-and-brick cottage — A flint-and-brick cottage in Burgess Hill where hard cement render had trapped moisture against soft red brick. We stripped the render back to bare wall, allowed the masonry to dry, then rebuilt the finish in three coats of lime and limewashed it.
oast house conversion — Sagging original ceilings in an oast house conversion near the centre of Burgess Hill. 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.
tile-hung Wealden farmhouse — Weather-facing walls of a tile-hung Wealden farmhouse taking the full force of the drier but wind-driven weather of the South East coast and Downs. We specified hot-mixed lime or NHL 2 with hair reinforcement for lath and frame, built the render up in generous coats and protected the work while it carbonated to avoid shrinkage cracking.
Yes. We take samples of the surviving mortar or plaster from the soft red brick first, then match aggregate, colour and texture so the repair blends into the original rather than patching over it.
Yes — stripping failed cement render and replacing it with a breathable lime render is one of the most common jobs we carry out in Burgess Hill. It is usually the fastest way to resolve persistent damp in a solid-wall building.
We do. Lime repointing is a large part of our Burgess Hill workload — raking out hard cement pointing and replacing it with a softer, sacrificial lime mortar that protects the masonry face instead of eroding it.
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