lime mortar

Have a brick fireplace that needs plastering; I’ve been told to do lime plastering for it. Which lime is needed; hydrated or hydraulic? How long will it take to cure/set til can paint over it? And will it need to be a specific type of paint? Fireplace is going to have a 4kw log burner/multi...

Ok, so…… The house is built from stone and lime mortar around 1880. The exterior walls are plastered with an extremely hard cement render, which I will not be removing as it’s listed and there are lovely moulded features. The interior is mostly lime plaster which I have removed, there are...

We have some builders currently half-way through lime rendering for us. They've finished scratch coat ... but: -> I think without wetting bricks first -> have nailed hessian to this overnight (into the brick) until temperature consistently back to 5'c from Monday onwards What impact is this...

Hello, I have recently purchased a 1930's property. The downstairs has been fairly recently replastered with plasterboard and then skimmed however upon further investigation of the bedrooms when we started removing wall paper the plaster had blown off the walls in a alot of places and was...

Hello, I have recently purchased a 1930's property. The downstairs has been fairly recently replastered with plasterboard and then skimmed however upon further investigation of the bedrooms when we started removing wall paper the plaster had blown off the walls in a alot of places and was coming...

Hi! I have a small summer house in Sweden with plastered walls that are in dire need of repair. The house is from the end of the 19th century and I believe that lime mortar has been used. Now there are large holes in the plaster and the plaster is really soft and crumbles easily. Now I'm...