Maintenance Matters
Rhyd-y-car Terrace in St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life For those, who have not been to St Fagans in Cardiff, it is worth the trip. Great place and an ideal way to start to understand how buildings have changed over …
Tag: limewash
Great News for Lime Lovers
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 …
Limewashing the west facing wall
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 …
I can’t afford lime render!
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 …
Where has that damp smell gone?
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 …
Lime wash on, it can be hot in the winter!
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 …
Lime rendering my home
Money where mouth is moment! I have long been an advocate of treating old solid walls correctly. This means allowing them to breathe using a lime based render (where render is needed of course). Anyway my house has been suffering …
Lime – that’s less than half the problem!
Sustainable and historical bodies talk about the need for lime renders and mortars in pre-1919 solid walled buildings and rightly so. Lime is a porous material and will allow moisture to pass through it. This allows the walls to ‘breathe’ …
An old bay exposed
The render under the window was harder to get off. Attached to cement blocks that we used to fill gap when bay removed The front of my house is flat with one large window downstairs. I sort of knew that …
Damp proof injections – how to do it!
This is how it should be done on older solid walled brick built buildings. The damp proof cream needs to be injected in the lime mortar (NOT the brick) and it should be injected every half brick. The hole should …