Mid West Lime were the preferred contractor to carry out this long-term project. It involves the remediation of a “renovation job” that was carried out approximately 15 years ago. The original house was cast in a coat of a hard sand and cement mortar both inside and out. The first phase involved removing all the sand and cement plaster off the external walls and to re render them in a lime mortar. The hardwood sash windows were taken out and refurbished at this time. Stone upstands were grafted onto the existing stone cills and the windows modified to suit this detail.
The following phase of work involved removing all the sand and cement mortar off the walls inside the house and insulating the attic and ceilings with sheeps wool and wood fibre boards. The upstairs walls were given a three coats of hemp lime plaster. There were extensive masonry repairs to the walls and around fireplace opes. There was extensive decay to some of the floor joists that had been surrounded in concrete. This concrete was removed, and the joists replaced or repaired.
On the ground floor walls a lime hemp plaster was applied in some areas, expanded cork and cork plaster was also used in different locations. Calcium silicate board was used under each window where the masonry was a good deal thinner than the main walls. Timber lintels are being replaced with stone lintels. The old fireplaces were opened, and the masonry details reinstated to its original form. Some walls were pointed. A polished limecrete floor screed was poured in the living room area with an electric underfloor heating loop laid into this screed and a limecrete floor slab with Liscannor stone was laid to the other half of the house.
