Lime from Italy, built up by hand and burnished until it shines. Written into architects' drawings. Trusted on listed and commercial projects.
We do not skim, we do not take general plastering, and we do not pass work on. Decorative lime, applied by hand, is all we do.
It comes through Zavorè, who import it. We know what is in it because we have asked, and we have never found a reason to change.
Including a Grade II* listed building, which is as high as listing goes.
Made before you commit to anything, so the decision is made with the finish in your hand.
Agreed before we start. Signed means settled.
Every job runs in the same order, so you know where you are at every point.
A call, or a visit to the wall. What it is made of and how the room is used decide the system, and we say which before anything is priced.
Made in your finish and colour, left on your wall for you to live with. You sign it off or we make another. Nothing moves until you do.
Preparation, materials, labour and protection, each itemised in writing. No day rate hiding anything. Agreed is agreed.
Protection first, dust kept down, then each coat built and burnished to match the board. The site is left clean every evening.
A walk round together, a note on aftercare, and a wall that keeps hardening for years. We are still on the phone afterwards.
Marble dust in aged lime, burnished until it shines like stone. The finish most people mean by Venetian plaster.
Coarser marble in the mix, finished matt or with a low sheen. Forgiving on a long wall and better with age.
Thin, seamless and sealed. Over tiles, on floors, in wet rooms. The modern one.
Moroccan lime, polished with a stone and sealed with soap. One continuous surface, which is why it suits showers.
Brushed lime, chalky and cloudy, with almost no sheen. The softest of the six.
Real metal in a plaster binder. It tarnishes and patinates the way metal does. Bronze, brass, copper, iron.
We work across Cheltenham and the Cotswold villages around it. Montpellier, Pittville, the Promenade and Lansdown are terraces and villas of painted stucco, iron balconies and rooms with ceilings twelve feet up. It is a festival town with a hotel and restaurant trade to match, and the villages beyond it are full of stone houses and barn conversions.
Stucco is lime, and so are the walls behind it, so in a Regency room here we work in Marmorino, polished plaster or limewash, which were made for exactly this architecture. A gypsum skim sealed with modern paint in one of these houses is how the damp starts. In the Cotswold stone houses, limewash and a soft Marmorino look as if they were always there.
Everything about how we work — the samples, the fixed price, the six finishes — is on our main Venetian plastering page. This page is about Cheltenham.
We cover the whole of Cheltenham and the towns around it. If your address is not listed, ask anyway.
A picture and a measurement is all we need to start. Next steps within a working day.
If you need any help, feel free to get in touch. We are happy to answer anything about finishes, timings or price.
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