Lime Stucco | Heritage restoration | Ashlar block finish

Project; To renew existing lime stucco on a Rammed Earth building, with original materials and traditional techniques. Ashlar finish.

Project location; Paris, Ontario

Description; One of the main causes of  lime stucco failure is bad detailing on and around a building. There are certain initiatives that should be taken to ensure that a building maintains the wide range of superb benefits that a lime stucco system offers. As part of any installation we do 'The Lime Plaster Company' will give you a step by step idea of what these initiatives should be, and, if some of them are un-obtainable how to deal with that. These initiatives for the most part are very straight forward. On this particular project the life of the lime stucco had unfortunately been compromised due Unsuitable exterior paints, bad gutters and unsuitable use of modern materials for patch repair. On removal of the existing stucco we found the Rammed Earth substarte in places to be fairly bad, so these areas were repaired prior to our Lime Stucco application. The next few steps were to apply subsequent Lime Stucco coatings Dubbing/Brown/finish to leave a fresh new Ashlar finish. In the sping of 2012 'The Lime Plaster Company' will return to site to apply a Limewash or Potassium Silicate coating.