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 …
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 …
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 …
How is this possible? Damp on an internal wall? – So no water ingress from blown render or poor pointing, no leaking gutters, no cracked tiles, no raised pavements above damp proof course, so what is going on? Internal walls …
Lime rendering and plastering is one the key ingredients of a sustainable older home. Lime putty render with a stone dust aggregate has a very low embodied energy, it is very breathable and it is the correct render of choice …
Old walls can have a right old mix of surfaces on them – some old lime, some newer gypsum, paint, filler …. Trying to get an even coat of a plaster or paint over the top of this can be …
I called LaFarge a couple of weeks ago to see if they had a product that might solve an issue I had some with very old lime plaster / render in my home. This was the response from their Technical …
Perhaps an odd question to ask, for how can visible mould and damp be healthy, beneficial or aesthetically pleasing? The short answer is that it cannot, but there is a BUT. This BUT is quite a big one as well. …
Some people are looking for a gypsum style finish on their lime plastered walls. The temptation for some (especially builders) is just to plaster gypsum onto the lime plaster. This is not a pretty relationship between the two and even …
One of the major mistakes that we see in refurbishment of old solid walled houses is the use of modern materials over over the original substrates. I have written before about the use of cement render over these types of …
