Traditional lime plastering in Redditch and across Worcestershire. Working on sandstone cottages and other solid-wall property, we specify hot-mixed lime, lime putty and natural hydraulic lime to suit each individual wall rather than applying one standard mix to everything.
Sympathetic repair in Redditch 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 oak timber frame with wattle panels before mixing so new work sits alongside old rather than standing out.
Redditch and the villages around it retain a good deal of oak timber frame with wattle panels. Where that material is soft — as most traditional Worcestershire 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.
In the damp, sheltered inland Midlands climate, an impermeable render is a liability: water gets in at cracks and reveals and then cannot leave. Lime render on a Redditch wall handles that water, releasing it back out through the surface instead of pushing it deeper into the structure.
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 damp, sheltered inland Midlands climate 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 Redditch property — the building types and problems vary, but the answer is always breathable lime rather than cement.
canal-side warehouse conversion — Sagging original ceilings in a canal-side warehouse conversion near the centre of Redditch. 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.
black-and-white timber-framed house — Cracked and cement-patched panels on a black-and-white timber-framed house in Worcestershire. 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.
Victorian villa — A Victorian villa in Redditch where hard cement render had trapped moisture against oak timber frame with wattle panels. 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.
We do. Redditch is one of our core areas and we travel throughout Worcestershire and the surrounding parts of West Midlands for lime plastering, lime render, lime pointing and heritage repair.
Lime cures slowly by carbonation. Allow roughly a week per coat as a guide, and longer in the damp, sheltered inland Midlands climate. 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 Worcestershire and can supply mix specifications and sample panels for Redditch conservation officers where consent is required.
We do. Lime repointing is a large part of our Redditch workload — raking out hard cement pointing and replacing it with a softer, sacrificial lime mortar that protects the masonry face instead of eroding it.
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 Redditch and provide a written, no-obligation quote.
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