Special Projects
Our Special Projects team is dedicated to providing complex heritage restoration schemes with the technical excellence and expertise they deserve.
So the scope of works on the roof is really to return it back to its original state.
So what we came to discover is in the eighties
they put on an aluminium roof covering
which wasn't doing the roof any favours in the historic timbers inside.
So what we've done is stripped all the aluminium off
that was causing the roof to sweat underneath
and we replacing it back with the original design.
So that's using Welsh slate
and that’s also returning the central turret as per original photographs we have.
At the same time we're installing external insulation to the roof
to really futureproof the roof.
Also what we're doing is another future
proofing aspect is enlarging all the gutters and the outlets on the church.
So the gutters either side, East and West
and also the South have been rebuilt.
to basically take all the weight of the water
and all the velocity of the new water.
So as as climate change becomes more prominent and there's more rainfall
the church can also deal with that.
We found that the original was in fact from Wales itself.
So what we've tried to do is match as close as we can
to the historic slates with modern day slates.
So again, we've gone back to Wales, we’ve gone to the Penrhyn Quarry
and we taken the Welsh slates.
The slate on this project has actually been dug to a specification of colour.
So the client and the design team have chosen the specific colour and slate,
we’ve then ensured with communication with the quarry that we're digging
just that slate, and then as they dig it and let it dry, they deliver it to site.
So it's all returning the church to its former past
and bringing that story back to life.
What we're doing here is basically conserving the historic ceiling of the nave.
So what we're having to do is install two, it's a two ?
we’re installing supports above the ceiling
and we’re also replastering the ceiling from below.
The supporting was always meant to be part of the project,
but it wasn't until watching the project doing investigations we deemed
that the actual plaster below was coming away.
So we're having to do a full scheme of works below.
What you can see here is basically the plaster
supporting the historic ? plaster ceiling from above.
So we use stainless-steel trays, we use an activation serum
on the historic plaster and then put on new plaster.
So we're basically conserving the historic grabbing it up and supporting it.
So when we put on the new plaster below,
It's really got a solid base to go from.
What you can see here is the first finished bay of the plaster work.
So the plasterers are going through step by step on each bay, there’s four bays to complete.
Again, as I explained above, what we found when we came to the church
was the top skim of the plaster was delaminating.
So we've had to remove the top skim of plaster,
consolidate everything from above and from below and re skim it.
So because it's a lime construction of the ceiling
with lime plaster, we've put back a lime plaster back.
So the guys have worked tirelessly to get this on, this is the first finished one
and then we're just working step by step to finish the others.
