Lime Earth

Stuart Furby, the founder of Lime Earth Paints trained in the use of traditional building materials as a stone conservator.

He has worked under the guidance of many of the country’s most prominent conservation architects on varied projects including cathedrals, vernacular buildings and even an art gallery. Stuart has developed a modern lime paint for interiors and exteriors that allows buildings to breathe and salts to pass through, by combining naturally hydraulic and non hydraulic limewash bound with acrylic.

This increases freeze-thaw durability and abrasion resistance when used indoors, and bond strength to both porous substrates and masonry/emulsion painted surfaces. Its high solids content gives good opacity reducing the number of coats required of limewash to one or two coats internally and up to three externally while maintaining its conservation quality status.

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