MOUNTAIN STONEWORKS
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Concealing brick or cement infills
Do you have brick or concrete block patches on your wall, caused by the replacement of different sized windows, removal of old pipes, blocked-in doorways?
Whatever the reason, rather than have them removed and built up with new, expensive, ill-matching stone, we at Mountain Stoneworks can 'disguise' them with Lithomex. We can coat over them and blend it in to the surrounding stone so that no one could tell they were ever there.
Concealing an unwanted window aperture
If you have an unwanted window or door aperture, we can '"disguise" the area, so that it blends in with the wall.
Once the window is blocked in and recessed in order to allow our coating, the colour-matched Lithomex is applied and over-filled past the plane of the stone.Then we sculpt the Lithomex as it dries, creating textures and tooling to match the surrounding stonework. Finally the wall is lime-pointed and the area where the window once existed, is no longer visible.
Before and after of both a brick infill and stone repair
In this example of a damaged window surround, there are two areas of brick infills and several rybats, and a lintel, that have lost their surface detail.
The stone rybats and lintel were reinstated, including their scored margins, and the coating on the brick infills was coursed in line with the stonework, and stugged to match the rest of the stone.
Together, the repairs transform the window to how it would have originally looked.
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Disguising an unwanted concrete block, door infill
Someone's previous attempt at disguising a door aperture.
The old coating removed back to the blockwork and the start of Lithomex stone simulation.
The finished work.
