The Construction Workers Charitable Trust has chosen CarringtonLIME Heritage Skills Training C.I.C2 to be the recipient of its £20,000 Construction Employability Award 2024/25. CarringtonLIME, a Community Interest Company, based in Mitcheldean, runs heritage construction and skills training, predominantly in lime plastering. The award will enable the company to expand their fully funded national Heritage Plastering programme. The company is currently the only heritage trainin

It's an interesting time to be involved in architecture. We face many challenges regarding climate change which is putting immense pressure on the industry to change. Working in the heritage sector, means we spend a lot of time looking to historic methods and materials. We understand we have lost knowledge of traditional materials but it is only when we look back not just 100s of years but 1000s, do we see just how much potential knowledge we have lost. Looking at truly ancie

With the help of a group of experienced plasterers across the UK, we are trying to fin an alternative to Chinese plastering fibres. We are trying to source an option that is produced in the UK and is easily scalable. One of the options is Hemp - but there is more than one type of hemp: Hemp Shiv is commonly used as an aggregate in insulating plasters and hempcrete. It is sold in a number of lime suppliers and is widely used by plasterers. It doesn't work as a fibre. This shou

For those of you who haven’t used local horse fibre before, I thought it would be interesting to show you how it differs from the Chinese fibres. In the video below you can see an image of Chinese fibres. Most suppliers send them in small bundles which you can then cut to the desired size. It reminds me of synthetic dolls hair – quite soft and swishy. If we compare this to the locally source horse tail – its very different. The local fibre is noticeable thicker, courser –

Plasterers - we need your help to find a sustainable, ethical alternative to the current plastering fibres in the market.

Ben, along with fellow plasterers Andrew Doyle, Ricardo Gooden, James Larcombe, Trevor Shemsin and Glynn Tebbutt, had the honour of...

A massive well done to Ben for winning the Mentor of the Year Award at yesterdays Worshipful Company of Plaisterers & FIS Training...

Ben's 25 years of dedicated work in the Heritage Industry was acknowledge today when he found out that The Worshipful Company of...

We want to say a massive good luck to our Professional Student Karen @kas_heritage_lime who this week heads off to be part of The Princes...

After years of talking about it, and months of planning, our Professional Heritage Plastering Students started their 5 month plastering...