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168 T H E B U I L D I N G C O N S E R VAT I O N D I R E C T O R Y 2 0 1 7 SPECIALISING IN REPAIR AND RENEWAL OF PLASTERWORK TO: HISTORIC BUILDINGS CHURCHES LISTED BUILDINGS TIMBER FRAMED BUILDINGS AND BUILDINGS OF ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST RIVEN OAK/CHESTNUT/SOFT WOOD LATH WORK HAIRED LIME PUTTY PLASTERS TO MATCH EXISTING WATTLE AND DAUB PANELS PERIOD CORNICE WORK LIMEWASH/DISTEMPER PROJECTS INCLUDE: PARHAM HOUSE, GRADE I GOODWOOD HOUSE, CHICHESTER WHITTAKERS COTTAGE, WEALD & DOWNLAND MUSEUM THE MERCHANT’S HOUSE, MARLBOROUGH, GRADE II* ST CROSS HOSPITAL,WINCHESTER, GRADE I and many listed buildings throughout the South of England 18 THE LEYS, SINGLETON CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX TEL: 01243 811863 MOB: 07775 981985 HISTORIC PLASTERWORK PLASTERWORK ◾ ◾ A R H TUCKER & SONS (CLEETHORPES) LTD 5 Imperial Avenue, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire DN35 7EG Tel 01472 692012 Email office@arhtuckerandsons.co.uk www.arhtuckerandsons.co.uk PLASTERWORK : A family-run firm established in 1930 with a reputation for high quality workmanship earned during its 86 years of working. This continuity of experience has passed down the skills and craft through tradesmen to apprentices. Specialists in all types of rendering, internal and external, including heritage work using traditional materials including fine stuff, haired lime, hydraulic and non-hydraulic lime. Repair and renewal of plasterwork to historic buildings including listed buildings and churches, is also undertaken, including timber lath and lime work, to replace or repair existing. The company runs in-situ, plain face, fibrous cornice mouldings and repairs damaged cornice work. Also, floor screeds in lime or cement and modern applications in gypsum plasters and various other materials. Projects include: Somerton Castle, Boothby Graffoe Grade I; Boston Guildhall Grade I; 116 High Street, Boston Grade II*; Fydell House, Boston Grade I. ◾ ◾ ALBA PLASTERCRAFT 12 Russell Road, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire PO13 9HP Tel 023 9255 3027 Email alanjbailey@btconnect.com Contact Alan Bailey MCPG ALL ASPECTS OF FIBROUS PLASTERWORK, RUN IN SITU LIME WORK : With over 35 years of experience in restoration and new work. Manufacturing and fixing service at a very high standard. Alba Plastercraft offers a full match to existing and restoration service, as well as working from drawings. Choose from the large range of cornices, centre-pieces and corbels. As well as internal work, it can provide a complete service to all external mouldings and cornices, either in traditional or modern materials. The company has worked for the National Trust and film industry. As this case study demonstrates, the conservation of fine furniture requires a sound understanding of the many glues and adhesives available. Where in the past many losses would simply have been replaced with ‘close-to-original’ material, today the conservator’s challenge lies in selecting the right repair materials to allow as much original material as possible to be retained while giving a sense of completeness. NORBERT GUTOWSKI, programme tutor for furniture and related objects, has been teaching furniture conservation-restoration and making at West Dean College since 1996. Email norbert.gutowski@ westdean.org.uk Glass fibre rods, carbon fibre rods and carbon fibre mat (from left to right) used for reinforcing broken and damaged furniture; used correctly carbon fibre is stronger than steel. The damaged tenon pinned in place with two carbon fibre rods The chair leg after removing old glue and the broken tenon from the mortice