How to Use Running Render: A Practical Guide to Running External Mouldings Running Render is our specially developed range of rapid-setting natural cement mortars, designed for the in-situ running, reproduction and repair of traditional external cornices, string courses, window surrounds and other architectural mouldings. Developed through our own experience as working plasterers, the system combines […]
Plaster Man: Jethro Marsh on Craft, Conservation & a Life in Plaster The story behind The Natural Plaster Company — from growing up around building conservation and finding a way into plastering, to traditional lime work, craftsmanship, social media and passing specialist skills on to the next generation. I recently joined The Aggregate podcast from […]
The Complete Guide to Traditional Lime Plaster Lime plaster has been used to finish and protect buildings for centuries and remains one of the most appropriate plastering materials for the repair and conservation of many traditional buildings today. Unlike modern gypsum and cement based plasters and renders, traditional lime plaster is vapour permeable, relatively flexible […]
While working on the exterior decoration at St Michaels Mount we were also asked to take on this really nice little repair inside in the castles famous Chevy Chase Room. One of the oldest parts of the castle, the room dates back to the 1100s and is an amazing tapestry of historical craftmanship over the […]
We were asked to create a strapwork scheme for the main entrance hall of this Georgian Manor house based around a central ceiling rose. The rose was to be placed off center to hang a chandelier over the stairwell rather than the middle of the room. We designed and installed this simple geometric strapwork creating […]
We have collaborated recently on this ornate ceiling commission with our former associates at Bosence Building Conservation now based in East Sussex. We were asked to produce the plaster components for their design based on details found in and around the clients Winchester home. Working from drawings we produced clay models for seven individual leaf […]
We have been very privaliged recently to start work on Cornwalls iconic St Michaels Mount. We have been brought in as specialist sub contractors to conserve and partially restore the Roman cement decorative features to the façade of the blue drawing room. In order to prevent further deterioration we are repairing and putting back some […]
An area of this heavily ornate ceiling at St Johns Methodist church in St Austell had suffered water damage from a previously leaking roof. Although now re-roofed and watertight the damage had already been done and a section collapsed on to the gallery below. The leak had caused some of the wooden laths to rot […]