At last the revolutionary lime product that we have all been waiting for: From: https://vivus.solutions I have known for sometime that someday, someone (well I knew whom) would create a special lime product that would answer all the concerns that …
Limewash picture from Heritage Directory I have spent a lovely few hours yesterday painting the rear of my house using some limewash. I made the limewash using some mature lime putty mixed up with water. The mix is around 60:40 …
When building we use the term ‘sand’ a lot for mortars, but what do we mean by it and is sand what we really need for lime renders and plasters? The picture above shows some ‘soft sand’ on the right …
This is quite common to see bricks suffering from old age (and occasionally poor pointing) This is the type of wall that is commonly rendered over (using cement) because the bricks have lost their faces and hence are much more …
Lime rendering done by Welsh Lime Works in Cardiff Lime rendering is a specialist trade (not to be confused with lime plastering or cement rendering!) and as such it takes time served craftspeople to do it well and it also …
From RIBA The pressure for energy saving in solid walled buildings is real and tangible. Green Deal and rising energy bills are encouraging us to insulate our walls. Where we have external features / facades that we want to keep …
Typical streetscape in Cardiff Can you stop stone and brick walls from getting damp? The simple answer is YES, but there are a range of issues surrounding the question and the answer! The main issue around whether a wall is …
No need for these now! The was always a certain smell when we came back home. That slight dusky smell that reminds you that there was damp in the house. Well, I am glad to say that when we returned …
Welsh Lime Works have finished my house!! Hooray. They have managed to work around the scaffolding and all the problems left by the last lime company to produce a lovely white house. The final coat to this lime putty render …
Plastering with gypsum is obviously different from rendering with sand and cement When doing ‘conventional’ works to buildings it is a clear distinction of trades between internal and external works. This is because there is a difference in some of …
