Job Examples

Cornice Repair - water damaged mortar

Cornice only - 250 Victorian cove

Modern Arch - in plasterboard wall opening

Heritage Restoration - fire damage

Tudor Bungalow Restoration - fibrous plaster ceiling replacement

Face Brick Face Lift  - new décor

Cornice Repair

Reinstate a damaged solid plaster Victorian cornice in an entry hall

  • made template of the cornice's ceiling profile
  • made lengths of the section in fibrous plaster
  • fixed sections to reproduce existing cornice shape
  • patched and formed other missing pieces and formed the cove part of the cornice ready for painter

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Cornice only

Fix 250mm Victorian Cove cornice to lathe & plaster ceilings and masonry walls

  • mark out and prepare wall and ceiling by removing the paint layer and the white set coat of plaster
  • place cornices, 250mm Victorian Cove, glued with cornice cement and temporary fix with nails
  • straight stop cornice to walls and ceiling and do mitres and butt joints

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Modern Arch

Form archway in opening and decorate

  • sweeps, keystones & capital moulds

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Heritage Restoration

Reinstate ceilings in a house with burnt out roof

  • fix the cove part of 300mm Victorian Cove to the wall
  • fix profiled straight fibrous plaster sections to the ceiling
  • form the cove joining the wall & ceiling parts of the cornice
  • insert patterned sections and stop mitres and joints

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Tudor Bungalow Restoration

Replace failed fibrous plaster ceiling and dome and line cracked walls

  • remove old plaster cover battens and fix 42x19 pinus battens under existing ceiling
  • correct roof framing weakened when dome was originally installed
  • remove & re-install original dome and decorate ceiling as per original
  • glue fix plasterboard to the walls to cover cracking masonry walls

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Face Brick Face Lift

Glue fix plasterboard to face brickwork to transform a 70's feature

  • remove existing cornices
  • glue fix plasterboard over feature brickwork
  • flush finish with flushing beads to the perimeters
  • fix new 170 Edwardian cove cornices
  • brightens up these living areas amazingly

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