World House News

Modern replacements are less attractive and it can be extremely pricey. The sliding wood-framed panes, counterbalanced with weights are actually simple for specialist to repair. Small holes in the frames can be filled with resin and larger sections are to be patched with good quality timber. In some victorian houses, fireplaces provided the decorative focus. Cracked firebacks can be replaced at specialist fireplace shops and graphite-based grate polish will be used on cast iron fire surrounds that has been stripped of paint to bring them back to lustrous black. Many old buildings still have their original floorboards like patinated features which should never be replaced, if they can be repaired. Centuries - old plasterwork is often the first feature to be stripped out in an unsympathetic renovation, though plasters and renders lend as much as character to a building as original flooring. Lime plastering is the best use for replastering whole rooms.