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RESTORATION AND RENOVATION
Below are some before and after photos showing repairs carried out. All the preparation, polyester membrane, cill repairs and mineral paint work carried out by Dan Moon.
Concrete window cill rebuilt with stainless steel bars bonded into epoxy resin and new concrete mixture poured into formwork built to match existing cill.
Original window surrounds made in cast concrete and stuck onto stone, loss of adhesion between stone and surround has caused the mouldings to break away and crack. The mouldings have been removed where necessary and new mouldings made with fibrecem and matched to the existing. They have also been coated with liquid stone.
Concrete copings badly damaged by water over many years. They have been mechanically cleaned, loose sections have been tied together with steel bars set in epoxy resin and all open joints made good. They have then been encapsulated in a polyester membrane, sealed and painted. The stonework below has been allowed to dry and repointed where needed, the whole area was then covered with stainless steel mesh, rendered with lime mortar (4 coats) and painted with a 'breathing' mineral paint.
Restoration of ceiling painted by French prisoners during the Napoleonic wars.
The ceiling suffered water damage and has been repaired using lime plaster.
The repainting of the ceiling has been confined to the repaired areas only using traditional paints and pigments matched to existing colours and then blended to age the new paint, the idea being to make it seem as though nothing has been done. Some areas of flaking were softened and the original flaking paint stuck back to minimise the amount of new paint.
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