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                              Lime repointing and Lime Rendering
                  Using the UNILIT  range of Natural  Hydraulic Lime


 

 

 

 

 

                                          Victorian garden wall approximately 160 years old

                                                     in need of full restoration

                                             replacing bad bricks, and raking out

 

                                   

 

         

 

  

                                                     after  repointing in lime mortar

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

                                                                     before repointing

 
 

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

                                           lime mortar will help keep the brickwork dry

       by letting it breath and dry out , before repointing the wall was constantly wet

 

 

      

 

             the wall needed alot of rebuiding in parts , but now restored to its original state

 

 

        

 

 

 

          

 

                                                 before  repointing

 

 

          

 

                            

                      replaced damaged bricks raked out ready for lime repointing

 

 

            

         

         

         

        

                                                                                                                                                  

                                   

                                       repointing and rendering work carried out in

                                     North Wales on a large estate house

 

                                   before repointing in unilite 35 NHL lime

         

         

           

 

                          cement mortar taken out awaiting pointing useing lime mortar

 

        

 

 

      front elevation pointed in a cement mortar which is not suitable for the stonework

        all the cement mortar will be taken out before lime mortar pointing will be done

 

         

 

      

                                                             repointing work

 

 

              

           

     

                                       rendering work in progress at the rear of the house

                         all work is done with the UNILIT NHL Lime 3 coat system

          

 

 

        

 

 

 

           

 

 

      

 

 

          

               

                        the finished lime render will now be painted in a lime paint from the

                     unilte corical range of lime paints, allowing the structure to breath

 

    

              

 

       all profiles and straight angles , done in a free hand method useing wood profiles

           which are then removed, if angle beads are to be used with lime render they

               must be good quality stainless steel and not the normal galvanised type

                               which would have a reaction with the lime render

 

 

 

      

 

     unilte 10 bonding layer applied with tyrolene gun , giving a good base for the top coats

                          unilte 30 used around damp course level

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                                                                            UNILIT  35 

 

 

         

 

 

                                                                                                                                                

 

 

                                     barn conversion near Nantwich in need of lime repointing

                                                and many bad bricks in need of replacing

           

        

 

 

                                              existing bricks are carefuly removed and reused

 

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

           

       

                  

    hard dense cement mortars should never be used on structures with soft pourus bricks

      lime mortar allows the structure to breath and lets the moisture migrate from the walls

                through the lime mortar joints, keeping the walls dry and free from damp

 

 

        

 

 

 

          

    

 

                                                      major repair work needed

 

          

 

            

                                                                                                                    

 

                         

                                                        cottage restoration near Chester      

 

                   lots of bad bricks to replace, and very bad settlement cracks to repair

                       over doors and windows, and at the corner of the building

 

          

         

 

 

                                6mm steel bars fitted in bed joint and grouted in

 

       

 

 

                 lime mortar repointing, bad bricks replaced and crack stitching completed

        

       

 

 

                       large vertical crack at the corner of the cottage to repair

  

        

 

                         joints raked out to half the depth of the brick and cleaned

                     above the windows and door and left hand corner,ready to

                   insert the grout and steel helical bars, repointing can then be done 

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

                                                 

 

 

 

                            crack stitching the permanant method for cracks in brickwork

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 lime repointing, lime rendering, internal replastering with lime mortar using NHL lime supplied by  www.telling.co.uk
 
 
 
 
 
 repointing in lime mortar, allowing the structure
to breath, lime mortar the traditional methods for the earlier built structures ,
 if you have signs of damp in your older built period property please call for some free advice and information, on the benifiets of using traditional lime mortar , for repointing , lime render and internal lime plastering
 
 Shropshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire
  and other locations covered