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Lath and Lime Plaster Repairs
Hayles and Howe are specialists in the use of Lime Plaster and have been involved in many prestigious Lime Restoration and Conservation projects. The use of lime as a building material has been dated to 5600BC and is therefore a tradition worth preserving. When approaching a new Lime Plaster project Hayles and Howe are more than happy to visit a site at the pre-contract stage under their consultancy umbrella this involves a thoroughly researched approach and written report if required.
Within this form of traditional restoration and preservation of historic plaster finishes Hayles and Howe offer the following:
Recent Lime Plaster Projects
All Saints Church, Barton upon Irwell, Manchester. Hayles and Howe are at present working on a Lime and Lath Pugin decorated chancel in this lovely church. This Conservation project involves complicated in-situ ribs run into existing.
Greenways in Devon a National Trust Property. In this complex year long project Hayles and Howe worked closely with the Conservation Architect, client and main contractor to reproduce exquisite internal and external Lime Plaster finishes restoring the property to its original atmospheric and timeless beauty. The work also included the complex running in-situ of cornices to match existing. The facade pictured before and after required every architrave, sill and overwindow to be repaired and redressed to bring back the sharpness of the original scheme, most of which was hand ruled or run with small templates in-situ. This successful and prestigious project required the highest level of quality, workmanship and finish using only traditional methods and materials.
Arnos Vale - Anglican Chapel
Hayles and Howe have successfully carried out extensive stablisation and replacement of ceilings and ornament in the Anglican Chapel within Bristol's Historic Cemetery at Arnos Vale. The building is a Grade II* listed Victorian Chapel which lies at the heart of this lovely city. The restoration required that only traditional methods were applied in the process of repair. The Hayles and Howe assurance of high quality was absolutely paramount for this project ensuring a successful completion. The extensive restoration was incredibly challenging for the workforce as it was essential to ensure that the badly eroded original finish was scraped back to give a consistant level for the sand and lime finish to be applied and finished without crazing. The work included running in-situ, lime skimming the walls onto the original background material and scribing Ashlar lines while the lime plaster finish was still soft. To restore the chapel to its former glories the team had to first clean all the surfaces and ornament of the chapel which ensured the success of this extensive project.
Hayles and Howe were delighted to be involved in this project as the Cemetery is of both local and International significance for its beautiful green spaces, listed buildings, chapels and monuments.
PROJECTS LIST
Cheltenham Ladies College 2009
Survey and evaluation for repair of lime plaster walls within shop units. Followed by the repairs within operating High class retailers. Oxford and Cambridge Club, Smoking room. Pall Mall. Lime repair to internal walls. Newark Park. Gloucestershire 1998 External Hydraulic Lime render to match existing exactly. Windsor Castle. 1996 Lime works to Equerries Staircase, the oldest surviving element of the Castle. CHIJ, Church of the Holy Infant Jesus, Singapore. 1996 Lime repair trials for restoration of 600 modelled capitals around the Convent. Welbeck College. Newark. 1996 Restoration of “Sunken” Ballroom cornice in run lime onto lath the largest run cornice undertaken to date. Barlaston Hall, Staffordshire. 1995 Full restoration of all principal rooms with in-situ run cornices to lathed brackets and hand modelled enrichments to most areas. Knowle Hall, Solihull Lime in-situ repairs to façade and entrance YHA. Carter Lane, St Paul’s 1993 Scraffito technique panel repairs to mate in with surviving elements on the external elevations of the ex choir school building. Carried out in various grades of coloured sand lime coatings cut away to give two tone cartoons. Hardwick Old Hall, Nr Sheffield. (National Trust) 1991 Lime Grouts of detached Tudor plasterwork combined with steel pinning restraint systems. Sutton Scarsdale. Nr Chesterfield. (English Heritage) 1991 Consolidation and protection to listed monument with Lime grouting to hollow plasterwork, tile hooding, and lime wash coating. Brodsworth, Nr Doncaster. (English Heritage) 1990 In-situ lime run cornice repairs. New Parliamentary Buildings. Westminster. 1988 Full refurbishment of Early Georgian ceilings incorporating all salvaged materials to reinstate original schemes. Wilton House, Salisbury. 1987 Restoration of Cube and Double cube rooms, plus in-situ Lime run cornice. Shugborough Hall. Stafford (National Trust) Reinstatement of fallen ceiling moulding recreating the exact profile before collapse with traditional materials incorporating salvaged original material. 1987 Llancaich Fawr. Wales. 1987 Full internal reinstatement of 3 storey medieval manor house with split oak lath, produced by Hayles & Howe, re plastered with Haired Lime/sand mixes in the traditional manner
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