Our Building Materials
The fact that plaster can still be commonly found is a testament to the robust and tenacious nature of the lime plaster mix. These qualities were undoubtedly there by design. When dealing with timber-framed buildings, especially built with green oak, there can be a phenomenal amount of background movement as the timber dries out.
This movement would have been too much for the far more rigid, heavy sand based mixes and would have (and still does) result in failure. Limecote™ is a non-hydraulic plaster made using East Anglian chalk and Derbyshire lime. It sticks to most surfaces, is phenomenally flexible, and can be used internally or externally, for anything from a thin finish coat over historic plaster to heavy relief pargetting.