Plastering, rendering and damp proofing in Rottingdean

Rottingdean sits in a conservation area, and much of the village is flint, cobble and old brick with soft lime mortar. Those walls need to breathe. Hard cement render and modern gypsum plaster trap moisture inside the flint and are the usual reason a centuries-old cottage starts showing damp at low level.

We work with lime-based finishes where a building needs them, take damaged plaster back to the masonry, and repair the flint and brick behind it before anything goes back on. Where a wall is genuinely damp, the cause gets found first rather than covered over.