Recent content by lucius

To far for me ime afraid.

Where is the job?

Unfortunately you have used a general builder rather than a Lime and Brick restoration company, you have a lot off damaged bricks which need the attention of a skilled person to replace or reinstate with the correct material, some of it looks like it may have been blasted atone time ?

Bad job, as a rule off thumb the raking out should be a minimum one and a half times the width so in this case around 15mm.The pointing they have done is rough.

Thanks for that interesting about the clay content regarding painting, personaly i havent seen flettons used on new builds for years we find them expensive and poor quality compared to the bricks available form Holland and Belgium these days.

Nice one mate look after them, cant think of the name of the other firm who made them for the minute but it will come to me they had a double rounded frog in them.

Ime well aware of the probs with LBC bricks the only reason they are used nowadays is to match up for extensions hence there high price for what they are, i thought they were now owned by Hansen didnt know Redland ever had anything to do with LBC .Ithought FLETTON was the name of somewhere in...

Use a Limewash on a 70s built house? get a life just use a breathable exterior paint anad as has been said why would you want to paint it anyway.

Google this sorry i cant do links. www,languagessite.co.uk/catalana Click on the first vid "Boveda Catalana" amazing stuff also if you just google Boveda Catalana there is loads on it.

Its been done and i guess you just start from one end same as Spanish vaults, a whole small house was built in Holland in the 80s with arches, upside down as an advertising gimmick for some epoxy morter.I still have dividers in my tool kit does that mean ime old Lol

Why cant you paint flettons?

The arch may have been built with a fast settimg epoxy cement morter and no former, Gaudis work was built with plaster of paris for morter same as the old Spanish vaulted ceilings with no former.