Looking for lime plastering in Coventry? We are traditional lime specialists covering West Midlands and the rest of West Midlands. Our work here ranges from black-and-white timber-framed houses to listed buildings and conservation-area homes, and every mix is chosen for the soft red brick we find behind the existing finish.
Damp in Coventry homes is usually caused by the wrong material rather than a faulty building. Where cement render has been applied over soft red brick, stripping it back and re-rendering in lime normally resolves the damp within a single drying season.
The older parts of Coventry are dominated by black-and-white timber-framed houses, sandstone cottages, industrial-era brick terraces. These are solid-wall constructions — there is no cavity, no damp-proof membrane and no vapour barrier — so the wall relies on evaporation through the plaster and render to stay dry.
Lime is flexible, breathable and self-healing. On Coventry properties built from soft red brick, it moves with the building instead of cracking away from it, and it protects the masonry rather than the other way round.
You get a single point of contact from survey to final coat. We agree the specification for your Coventry property in writing, prepare and apply the lime in the correct build-up, and advise on breathable decoration once the work has cured.
Every Coventry property is surveyed individually, but these examples show the kind of West Midlands buildings and use-cases we are called to most often.
industrial-era brick terrace — Blown gypsum plaster and tide marks on the ground floor of an industrial-era brick terrace in West Midlands. We hacked off the gypsum, applied a haired lime base coat and a lime putty finish, and specified clay paint so the wall could keep drying.
estate lodge — Salt-contaminated plaster around a reopened fireplace in an estate lodge in Coventry. We removed the affected plaster, applied a salt-tolerant lime build-up and finished flush with the surrounding original work.
black-and-white timber-framed house — Persistent ground-floor damp in a black-and-white timber-framed house in Coventry previously treated with injected DPC and waterproof render. Once the real moisture path was identified, the walls were replastered in lime and the damp resolved without chemical treatment.
Yes. We take samples of the surviving mortar or plaster from the oak timber frame with wattle panels 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 Coventry. It is usually the fastest way to resolve persistent damp in a solid-wall building.
Where damp is caused by trapped moisture in a solid wall — very common in older Coventry properties — replacing cement or gypsum with lime allows the wall to dry out. We always identify the source of moisture during the survey before recommending work.
It depends on the wall and its exposure. For most West Midlands work we use haired lime plaster on riven lath, with lime putty finishing coats, stepping up to a more hydraulic lime only where exposure or the substrate genuinely demands it.
We do. Lime repointing is a large part of our Coventry 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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