Cornice Repair

How Do You Fix Water-Damaged Coving? Step-by-Step Guide
Cornice Repair

How Do You Fix Water-Damaged Coving? Step-by-Step Guide

Quick Summary: Water leaks or damp patches often leave plaster coving stained, soft, or even crumbling. Fixing water-damaged coving requires careful assessment, drying, repair, and, in some cases, replacement using traditional methods. This guide explains the exact steps to restore coving safely and effectively.   Why Does Coving Get Water Damage?   Coving is made from plaster (lime or gypsum), which is porous and easily absorbs moisture. Common causes include:

Should You Remove All Layers of Paint from Cornices — Or Only the Flaking Areas?
Cornice Repair

Should You Remove All Layers of Paint from Cornices — Or Only the Flaking Areas?

When restoring plaster cornices, homeowners often wonder whether to strip all layers of old paint or just deal with the flaking parts. This blog explains the pros and cons of partial vs full cornice paint removal, highlights the risks of DIY and chemical methods, and shows why professional steam-only paint removal delivers the safest and most authentic results for period homes and listed buildings in London.

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Richmond Kew Jocelyn Road

  Richmond Kew Jocelyn Road 1870 London. Here you can see in the photos we stripped all of the paint from the cornice and ceiling rose, the light brown colour you can see is mainly staining from smoking from years ago and smoke from open fires.    

Millers Well Pub East Ham
Cornice Cleaning

Millers Well Pub East Ham

  The Miller’s Well Grade 2 Listed Public House Barking Rd East London. We were appointed to repair some sections of the cornice that had collapsed.  In the photos the lighter section of cornices are the new sections that were fitted and matched in with the existing cornice    

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Cornice Repair

We are experts in Cornice Repair, much of our work is carried out in old historic buildings, from the small Victorian terraced houses to the very large properties. Typically, the cornices are caked in many years of paint and many cornices have sections or parts missing. Having spent many years in the business of cornices there is nothing that we cannot fix, from cornice repair to cornice restoration to the complete removal of paint. read more….

Arundel Gardens Notting Hill
Cornice Cleaning

Arundel Gardens Notting Hill

This is a contract we undertook at Arundel Gardens at Notting Hill they are aged circa 1860.  Great care was taken to remove the old paint using our steam method.  ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

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Examples

Displayed on this page are a number of images showing the cornices before cleaning and after cleaning.
We also have some images of the during process.

Canonbury
Ceiling Rose

Canonbury

Canonbury. Northchurch Road. Built in 1846. At this property in Northchurch road, there was only one remaining original ceiling rose in the house. We were asked to restore this ceiling rose.  First we removed all of the detail mouldings from the ceiling so we could work on them back in the work shop.   Once we had removed the paint there was a lot damage to the stem of the

Cricklewood Lane
Cornice Cleaning

Cricklewood Lane

Crickewood. Cricklewood Lane. Built in 1890. Date the restoration work was carried out – 26th November 2017. In the first three photos, you can still see the steam from the cleaning of the ceiling rose, the final photo is the ceiling rose repaint by our self’s, using our spray paint method. ” template=”default” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

Westbourne Terrace Paddington
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Westbourne Terrace Paddington

Westbourne Terrace. Bayswater. London. Built in 1854. This restoration work to the original entrance Hallway was carried out 29th November 2017. The Entrance cornice had very bad water damage, so we was appointed to under take the restoration of the cornice, in the photos the cornice has been stripped, also we had to remake some of the detail mouldings for the repairs on the cornice. ” template=”default” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included”