We don't skim over old buildings. We listen to them, open them, and put them back with the materials they were built with.
Drygate Plasterworks is a fourth-generation Glasgow studio working exclusively in lime, lath and decorative plaster. Our work lives behind the doors of tenements, townhouses, churches and the occasional civic hall — quiet rooms that needed someone patient.
Every job comes with a written specification, a photographic record, and a finish that will outlive the next three coats of emulsion someone tries to put on it.
Three-coat work in haired lime — the way your tenement was first finished. Breathable, durable, and entirely sympathetic to old sandstone.
Hand-run cornice, ceiling roses and decorative mouldings. Bespoke replication when no match exists in the library.
Modern fixes hide problems. We open, diagnose, replace rotten lath, then close it the way it was meant to be closed.
Cat A and B interiors. Drawn schedules, sample panels, sign-off paperwork — and a finish you'd pay good money to keep looking at.
They mixed the lime on site, drew the moulding from the only intact corner, and put a 1903 ceiling rose back so you'd never know it was gone. Patient work, properly done.
Six rooms, six conversations with old buildings. Each one came in with damp, paint, or missing plaster — each one left with a finish meant to last.
Four steps, no surprises. Site visits are free. Specifications are written. Tools come out only when you've signed the page.
A free site visit. We open the wall where it matters, sample the lime, photograph everything, and listen.
Written specification — materials, profiles, day-rate, programme. You read it. No tools come out before you've signed.
Hot-mix lime, hair, and time. Slow coats, breathable finishes, true to the wall as the wall was first built.
A folder for the building — photographs, mix ratios, dates of every coat. Signed by us, yours to keep.
Same family. Same way of working.
From great-grandfather to apprentices today.
Tenements, townhouses, kirks & halls.
Cat A & B, signed off by HES.