Stone Restoration. Consultation. Lime Plastering and Rendering

Promised Alison a day off at the beach for her birthday. Forgot to mention it was a love job doing a new deck for her dad!! He does live at the beach so that bit was true! Love birthday girl. Love days off. Love our job!
When you’ve played football with your son and now you’re working with him on the same job. He did choose carpentry over stone but on this job I’m grateful he did. Special moments in Dad , son journeys. Proud of you Benny G. Love my
Working out what the roof shingles can be reused for. Maybe a kitchen range hood or panelling a storage nook. Beautiful to look at even after its years of sitting under the corroding iron sheets. Simple back then. Work with what you got. Use proper m
Just about ready for some finishing touches!! Room with a view is the new grey! Given the world took the colours away we’ll aim to put some back somehow. Every time, everywhere one way or another. Love my job! # stonerestoration #heritagesa
It’s an ongoing conversation. If you listen, the building will start to reveal its story that will help guide the restoration process. #stonerestoration #heritage #southaustralia #cedarandlime #conversationswithwalls
Proper bucket of mud at the window when access proves challenging and improvising is the way forward. Also a lot more fun than pushing a barrow ali.son_titchener! Love my ‘let’s get the job done together’!
Spaying lime to fill the stones. Leaving stones to have the spaces filled. Covering some and leaving others. Only teasing the room as it’s a long way off getting its glory moment! Mood lighting a bonus. Love a good mood. Love my job! #limeplast
I watched Alison yesterday. I wrote this, this morning after thoughts of what we are doing kept waking me up. Love my job even more! #stonerestoration #poetry #hertiagesa #latetolifetradie #doingthingsdifferently cedarandlime
Renovation, restoration or just making a mess. All in a days work. Alison saving a little of the outside whilst I couldn’t save the ceiling inside. Too many years of water coming in did little to dilute the possum wee, just added to the rot. Sh
A morning vision to behold. A lime mix in the drum turns its magic into a render that floats over the broken stones sand and cement did its worst to!! Historic and simple all in one. Love the Romans. Love my job! #limerender #limerendering #herita
Big news! Girl Friday is back! This time forever. Girl Friday is a late to life tradie!! Life choices are ours to take and explore. Love new adventures! Love Girl Friday! Love my (our) job!! #lovemyjob #latetolifetradies #girlpower #apprenticeships
Monday morning brings a joyous discovery! Question is always why would you do what they did? Love Mondays!??! Love my job!
Slowly ‘dubbing out, after a sprayed lime/sand sealer and re finding some shape down at the beach. The house was originally rendered / pointed with painted lines on the surface back in its hay day so after taking off the degrading cement render
Had a little play with another stick on stone job whilst the big beach lime job settles in. It’s oddly a very creative process, working with pieces of stone shaped concrete from a box. I really enjoy the challenge and love sneaking in a bit of
So I took the painted cement render off with great anticipation. What I found was it what I hoped for. More like, two wheel barrows of concrete holding up some corners. The quoins departed. The window band removed itself. Big cracks through stones w
When the take the paint off the render turns into take the ‘cement!’ render off the stone monday morning at the beach gets a happy lift!! Love a stone surprise! Love my job! #stonerestoration #heritagesa
At last I’m back with my trowels!! After weeks of challenging myself and my hands as life as a carpenter I’m back feeling healed by the power of Lime!! Nice retaining wall back at the now beautifully dried out Aldgate burnished render pro
With the weather confusing itself daily I was glad this inside job at a lovely old farmhouse grew from chip off damaged plaster and replaster to full room makeovers x3. Panelling, patching, painting and then a little out of sync complete floor makeov