We have come across this problem many times on houses over the years, where builders or carpenters have used non galvanised nails on the exterior of a house, really not a good idea, so what to do? We are assuming from the off set that replacing all the nails in […]
In this blog post, we will be painting new plasterwork . Our client had built a new extension on a period house in Ranelagh, Dublin 6. Our approach to working on this extension involved several stages: When we arrived at the job, the build is a newly plastered extension. We […]
In this blog post, we will look at a client who came to us in need of having their bay windows restored. Click on a photo to reveal full image. For this job, our clients Georgian period home needed it’s sash bay windows restored. In our time, we have worked on […]
Over the years we have worked on many period houses with both sash windows and shutters, and at some stage people go for a complete redo/ restoration of shutters windows and woodwork. Generally there will be over a hundred years of old paint on the wood work, So we tend […]
In this blog post, we will show you a step-by-step guide on how to approach restoring a front door in a period house using a heat gun and stripping agent. Doors on period houses may be one hundred and fifty years old, and in some cases even older. In many cases, […]
