A Few of our restoration projects

  Cement Pointing Rendering and the problems they can cause The risks of using cement materials on old period houses Below you will see some pictures of the irreparable damage that sand & cement (concrete) pointing and rendering materials can do to old solid walls...

Lime render and Lime pointing with stone cleaning to a solid wall stone house What can be done with the walls once cladding has been taken off? Is it possible to clean stone-work or will the walls need a new finish? Using a range of historic lime finishes we can...

Brick cladding tiles with stone corner cladding Quoin stones Specification: Clad the walls with brick tiles cut from 65mm bricks, apply and fix solid piece corner-stones to provide castle quoin effect The render on this detached bungalow was looking a little tired....

Stone cladded Victorian House Shepherds Bush. This type of cladding reduces the value of properties by a huge amount you will see the damage to the original bricks once the cladding has been taken off

Pebbledash and stone cladding removal. Here we remove pebble dash and render along with stone cladding from the front of the semi.
The stone cladding was causing damp problems and the pebble dash was blown and loose.

A popular product to apply when building properties in the sixties and the seventies was a tyrolean type of render, it was easy to apply and saved money by replacing any brick or stonework. Unfortunately it inevitably fails as water eventually gets behind it and during the winter frosts is loosened by the expanding ice.

This property is of PRC construction (Pre Cast Concrete) in an effort to ease the shortage of housing in the late 40s and early 50s thousands of these properties were built all over the UK . Of modular design many different types were built such as Livett Cartwright, Wimpey , Wates, etc.
Although most types of these houses qualify for main lenders mortgages’ they can be very cold and look a bit drab. With our insulated brick cladding system we are able to transform them into attractive houses and at the same time substantially improve the U values.

This detached house was treated to a brick cladding facelift The old brick work didn’t match the bricks on the extension and the tiles on the apex section were looking a bit drab. The homeowner even tried hiding the brickwork with ivy but got fed up of the invasive...

Another ugly duckling restored. This property is in North London, the owner contacted us to seek advice in the removal and cleaning of the building. As you can see from the pictures the state of the brick work once the cladding was removed meant that the cleaning of the brick work was impossible……

Removing render from an old stone cottage. Here we carefully take off concrete render that was causing damp to this very old stone cottage. Concrete renders (sand and cement render) do not perform well on damp solid walls and can cause some serious damage

Stone cladding removed from this late Victorian period terrace home Manchester area. Ugly stone cladding was removed from the brickwork. As to be expected when removing stone cladding some damage to the bricks will occur.
Once the brickwork was cleaned it was refaced in the brick cladding. The brick slips were cut from imperial reclaimed Accrington brick a perfect match

Insulated Brick cladding. Here we remove wood cladding and replace it with insulated brick cladding. 50mm Insulation K5 boards were fixed then cladding in 22mm thick brick tiles cut down from imperial bricks

Tired mis-matched brick work re-faced in sliced down brick tiles