- Lime products plus helpful advice
- Mike Wye Associates http://www.mikewye.co.uk
- Old House Store http://www.oldhousestore.co.uk
- and there are lots of others if you search for Lime Mortar Suppliers
- Information about limecrete - http://www.limecrete.net
- Information and Forum for Period Property owners (excellent forum to learn about lime, dampness and how to look after old buildings etc) - http://www.periodproperty.co.uk
- Cast iron rainwater goods - http://www.rainclear.co.uk
- "Conservation" roof lights - http://www.therooflightcompany.co.uk
- Hardware odds and ends - http://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk and http://www.screwfix.com
- Listed Property Owners Club (who have an annual show at Olympia each February) http://lpoc.co.uk
- Society for Preservation of Ancient Buildings http://www.spab.org.uk
- Tree felling and removal, supply and planting of new trees and hedge - Nicholsons of North Aston http://www.nicholsons.gb.com
- Sash window manufacturer - Traditional Joinery http://www.traditional-windows.co.uk
- Wood burning stove and chimney liner - The Fire Place http://www.the-fire-place.co.uk
- Architectural salvage on line - SalvoWEB - http://www.salvo.co.uk
- The Haynes Period Property manual - http://www.period-house.com/
- Black Limestone flags, imperial bricks, cast iron fireplace plus various other odd bits - Burgess Reclamation http://www.burgessreclamation.co.uk
- NB There is another reclamation company near here who are very noticeable on Salvo which they seem to use as their main marketing outlet. I ordered my front door from them and had great trouble as they couldn't deliver, because the manufacturer couldn't get wood that big! Then I had trouble getting my money back which took over seven weeks. I've never been back.
I'll leave it to you to decide which is the best of the national chains who stock building materials, as I don't think they need me to advertise for them. Suffice it to say that I think it helps if you can get known in these places to the extent that they don't ask your name but still give you your discount automatically.
[Edit 21 June] Here's a link to another blog which I have started.
1 comment:
I know you wrote this ages ago, but I want to say thank you. My husband and I bought a house circa 1785 in New Hampshire in the USA and it is an uncommon plank frame construction, but laid on a fieldstone foundation and built mostly from green timbers. We'd like to restore it as mindfully as possible within our budget which means doing a lot of things ourselves. It is so hard to find information on keeping an older building like this up using older methods, since most people just try to find a way to do concrete foundations instead of the stone or something else, so I appreciate your detail and links to sources so that we can attempt to do limecrete floors when we get around to putting flooring in the old well room and "ell" (attachment between house and barn) which currently have timber over dirt floors at almost ground level.
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