03 Proof
Proof, not promises
Three of our own projects, as they were handed over.
Lime from Italy, built up by hand and burnished until it shines. Written into architects' drawings. Trusted on listed and commercial projects.
No skimming, no general plastering, no subcontracting. Every wall is applied and burnished by hand by people who do it every day.
Supplied by Zavorè, who import it from Italy. We know exactly what is in the tub, and we would not use anything else.
We have worked on a Grade II* listed building, which is the highest listing grade there is.
Made for your wall before you commit to anything. You choose the finish in your hand, not from a photograph.
Once it is signed, it does not move.
Three of our own projects, as they were handed over.
Five steps, the same every time. You always know what happens next.
On the phone or on site. We check what the wall is made of and what the room has to put up with, and say which finish will cope.
Your finish, your colour, your sheen, on a panel you keep and look at for a few days. Nothing moves forward until you say so.
Preparation, materials, labour and protection, each on its own line. Nothing buried in a day rate. Signed, it stays signed.
Floors, joinery and furniture covered first. Dust kept down. Coats built and burnished to match the board. The site is cleaned every evening, not just the last one.
A walk round for snags, a note on looking after it, and a surface that gets harder and better with age. We answer the phone afterwards.
Lime and marble flour, worked to a mirror. The classic Venetian finish, and the one that shows every flaw in the wall beneath.
A grainier marble plaster, matt or softly burnished. The one most rooms end up with, because it forgives and it lasts.
Two millimetres of seamless cement over whatever is there, tiles included. Floors, bathrooms, showers.
Lime compressed with a stone and sealed with olive-oil soap, as Morocco has done it for centuries. Made for water.
A brushed lime paint rather than a trowelled plaster. Matt, cloudy, calm.
Metal particles applied like plaster and ageing like metal. Bronze, brass, copper and iron.
We work across Leamington and Warwick, and it is some of our favourite territory. Leamington is one of the best-preserved Regency towns in England, and Regency means stucco: lime render over brick, painted, with ironwork balconies and tall sash windows. The Parade, Clarendon Square and the terraces around the Pump Rooms are all lime buildings. Warwick is older still, medieval and Georgian, and a conservation area almost entirely.
In a lime building we use a lime finish, and here that is not a style choice but a building-physics one. Marmorino and polished plaster are what these rooms were made for, and limewash on a Warwick town house looks as if it has always been there. A gypsum skim in a Regency terrace is the thing we will talk you out of.
Everything about how we work — the samples, the fixed price, the six finishes — is on our main Venetian plastering page. This page is about Leamington Spa.
We cover the whole of Leamington Spa and the towns around it. If your address is not listed, ask anyway.
Send a photo of the wall and a rough size. We reply within one 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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