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Lime plaster worked by hand to read as cut travertine, with open pores and a faint horizontal bedding, for Coventry halls, fireplaces and hospitality rooms.
Travertino in Coventry is lime plaster worked to read as cut travertine, with open pores, faint horizontal banding and a matte, honed face. It is tinted to your colour and laid by our own artisans. Zavoré is based in Birmingham, where our Academy is, and we work across the UK. A few photographs of the wall and a note of the room's light are all we need to begin.
Coventry has plenty of red brick and plenty of plain plaster. Travertino brings a mineral, quarried character to a room in a way paint cannot. A chimney breast in an Earlsdon terrace, a long hallway in a 1930s semi in Whitley or the stair wall of a house in Cheylesmore can all carry it. Lime breathes, which also makes it a sound partner for solid walled older houses.
Being plaster, it weighs almost nothing and needs no fixings or substructure. It runs round curves, arches and columns where a stone slab would need cutting and mitring, and it can be seamless across a whole room. Or, if you prefer, we tape out courses and work each block, leaving a fine recessed line, so a hall reads as masonry.
The pitting is not stamped or rolled. A broken, uneven pass leaves voids, and a second pass drags across and partly closes them, filling some and leaving others open. The result is flat to a straight edge and pitted to the hand, as honed travertine is. How open it reads is a choice, so we settle it on a board first. Two applicators with the same material can produce a soft stone or an open, quarried one, so agree the texture before anyone touches the wall. Our travertino page has more.
Good places include entrance halls, stairwells, chimney breasts, alcoves, cloakroom basin walls once sealed, and restaurant, hotel and retail interiors. Feature walls lit from above or the side suit it well, because the pores read through shadow. A light wash down the wall from a recessed slot or an uplighter shows the pitting from across the room, while a spotlight straight on flattens it.
Keep it away from a hob, where grease sinks into the pores. A narrow passage brushed by coats and bags is also unkind to it, and inside a shower it is the wrong finish altogether, so tadelakt is the answer there. Where hands, splashes or steam reach it we seal it, which keeps the texture and makes the wall wipeable. A bare wall that nobody touches can age as stone ages.
We start with your photographs and measurements, and a sample board laid at the pitting you like. Hold it against the floor in daylight, because the finish is read by shadow. We survey the wall for soundness, dryness and flatness and say plainly if work is needed first, since the finish inherits whatever lies beneath. Damp, moving or loose backgrounds must be dealt with before plastering.
One applicator works each wall from corner to corner without a break, because fresh texture will not marry into a section laid the day before. Larger Coventry jobs are planned as a run of days so the team stays until the wall is done. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off. See our plaster installation page for how we work.
Consistency across a long wall is the hard part, and it is a good finish to learn at the Academy. The same training courses run at our centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester. Our decorative work page covers the wider range.
Travertino has near neighbours. The rougher cousin for gardens is artificial rock in Coventry, and carved forms beside it are bas relief in Coventry and sculptural plaster in Coventry. Gold on a stone wall is the subject of gilding in Coventry, and a gloss room across the hall is lacquered walls in Coventry. A painted panel is murals in Coventry, tiled floors are mosaics in Coventry, and the ceiling edge is cornice and coving in Coventry. Browse the decorative finishes specialist in Coventry page, and see Venetian plastering in Coventry for polished lime.
No. It is lime plaster worked to read as travertine, with the pores and bedding made by hand. It weighs almost nothing, needs no fixings and goes round curves.
On walls around a basin or bath it can, sealed. Inside the shower enclosure we would use tadelakt instead, and we say which once we have seen the room.
In a ventilated room very little, and a soft brush clears it. Near cooking, the pores hold grease and dust, which is the case for sealing.
Yes, and that is one of its strongest uses. It is trowelled rather than cut, so a curve needs no mitres or joints, though we must see the shape first.
When the sample feels right, ring 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photographs, rough measurements and your Coventry postcode.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Coventry and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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