Lime Plastering is a specialist lime plastering contractor working throughout Grimsby and the wider Lincolnshire area. As an established Lincolnshire town, Grimsby has a large stock of pre-1919 property built from millstone grit — 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 Grimsby 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 millstone grit before mixing so new work sits alongside old rather than standing out.
Grimsby and the villages around it retain a good deal of millstone grit. Where that material is soft — as most traditional Lincolnshire 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.
Using lime in Grimsby 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.
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 the cold, exposed and often driving rain of the Pennine slopes 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 Grimsby property — the building types and problems vary, but the answer is always breathable lime rather than cement.
converted stone mill — A converted stone mill in Grimsby where hard cement render had trapped moisture against millstone grit. 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.
Victorian millowner's villa — A commercial Victorian millowner's villa on a Grimsby high street within a conservation area. Decayed render and mouldings were reinstated in lime, run in situ to the original profiles, and finished to match neighbouring frontages.
Yorkshire sandstone farmhouse — Weather-facing walls of a Yorkshire sandstone farmhouse taking the full force of the cold, exposed and often driving rain of the Pennine slopes. We specified hot-mixed lime with coarse grit aggregate to suit hard-wearing stonework, built the render up in generous coats and protected the work while it carbonated to avoid shrinkage cracking.
Yes, but it must be finished with a breathable product such as limewash, clay paint or mineral silicate paint. We advise on suitable finishes for each Grimsby project so breathability is not lost at the final coat.
We do. Grimsby is one of our core areas and we travel throughout Lincolnshire and the surrounding parts of Yorkshire and the Humber for lime plastering, lime render, lime pointing and heritage repair.
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 Grimsby and provide a written, no-obligation quote.
We do. Lime repointing is a large part of our Grimsby 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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