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Stonework
Corbel can offer random-rubble walling or coursed stone walling which can be dry-stone walls or laid in lime mortars, or other specialist mortars such as Prompt.
Re-pointing is undertaken in lime mortar, which is generally matched to the existing unless it is important to demarcate an area as a repair.
Ashlar Stone is the dressed and shaped pieces of natural stone which form the walls and decorative features of historic walls such as cornices, plinths, steps, windows, doorways, weatherings, copings and arches. We can supply and fix new carved or cut pieces of stone or repair stones by either pinning together cracked stones or letting-in small pieces of similar stone. Alternatively we can build back the form of the piece to be repaired with a matched mortar mix or using tiles to read as an honest repair.
Mortar repairs:
Areas of stone can be replaced with mortar made to look the same as the stone. This can be a highly effective repair, especially where the parent stone is no longer available or was always weak in nature. Larger mortar repairs can be made using embedded pins and copper or stainless armatures.
Sheltercoats:
Stonework and repairs can be protected using a lime-based mixture which includes coloured fine aggregates and perhaps casein enhancers blended to create a coating which marries with the stone surface and is of a very similar colour and texture. When used over repairs, this can have the secondary aesthetic benefit of temporarily tying in the old with the new so they weather similarly.
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Brickwork:
We can rebuild brickwork of all ages in lime mortars and match brick size and colours very closely with reclaimed bricks. Brick repairs can be made by removing even single bricks and turning round or replacing. Obviously new brickwork and areas of rebuild such as chimneys can be undertaken.
We can use mortar repair techniques in the same way as for stonework. The brick can be built up to its original form using mortar coloured to match the brick itself aswell as the mortar between them. |
Cobbles:
In historic yards and some internal rooms, cobbles in stone or even bone were set as a durable floor.
We can repair cobbles which have sunken or been damaged by for example careless drain laying or services work.
We use traditional methods and materials which is different to most companies who often set cobbles in cement and often with the wrong shape of cobbles.
We can of course lay new cobble areas in the same way for practical or decorative purposes.
Tile and stone flooring:
Tiles were traditionally laid in lime mortars and often formed breathable floors. Similarly stone floors such as limestone or Blue Lias slabs and other natural stones.
In Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian times pattered tile floors were popular in houses and even in churches.
We can repair tile floor and supply matching coloured tiles where necessary to complete patterns. Obviously we can also lay new stone floors. Blue Lias can be reclaimed, reconstituted or new, which can be finished with highly polished, honed or just natural finishes.
Monuments, follies and tombs and iron removals:
Corbel undertake specialist types of repair such as rebuilding of table tombs when they start to collapse.
Wall monuments need to be regularly checked for signs of movement and corrosion of iron fixings which can lead to heavy tablets of stone falling from walls.
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Gilding & ironwork renewal / refurburbishment
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