About the service
I have been casting architectural gypsum for eleven years, and I still start every job the same way: with a tape measure and a pencil in the actual room. I take the ceiling heights at all four corners, check how far the walls run out of square, look at where the light falls in the evening, and only then draw the profile. A cornice that looks elegant in a catalogue can swallow a low ceiling whole, so I usually cut a short trial piece, hold it up in the corner and let you look at it before anything is committed to a mould.
When the profile is agreed I make the master model by hand and take a silicone mould from it. That mould is yours in the practical sense: every metre of cornice, every rose and every pilaster flute for your rooms comes out of the same form, so the joints match. Casting is gypsum of a controlled grade with a jute or fibreglass reinforcement laid into the back while the mix is still open, and the pieces are dried slowly rather than forced, because a rushed casting shrinks and cracks along the joint a month later.
On site I fit on gypsum adhesive, with concealed screws in the long runs until the glue takes. Corners are mitred and fitted in place, never bodged with filler; the seams are filled, sanded flush and primed, and if you want I paint the finished run so the decor reads as one continuous piece of the ceiling. Restoration work in old buildings is a large part of what I do: I take a silicone squeeze from a surviving fragment, reproduce the missing sections in the original profile, and clean the old plaster back from generations of paint without softening the modelling.
What is included:
— site survey, measurement of ceilings and corners, profile sketch
— master model and silicone mould made for your project
— reinforced gypsum casting of all elements
— delivery, fitting on gypsum adhesive, mitred corners
— seam filling, sanding, priming, painting on request
— reproduction and restoration of historic mouldings
When the profile is agreed I make the master model by hand and take a silicone mould from it. That mould is yours in the practical sense: every metre of cornice, every rose and every pilaster flute for your rooms comes out of the same form, so the joints match. Casting is gypsum of a controlled grade with a jute or fibreglass reinforcement laid into the back while the mix is still open, and the pieces are dried slowly rather than forced, because a rushed casting shrinks and cracks along the joint a month later.
On site I fit on gypsum adhesive, with concealed screws in the long runs until the glue takes. Corners are mitred and fitted in place, never bodged with filler; the seams are filled, sanded flush and primed, and if you want I paint the finished run so the decor reads as one continuous piece of the ceiling. Restoration work in old buildings is a large part of what I do: I take a silicone squeeze from a surviving fragment, reproduce the missing sections in the original profile, and clean the old plaster back from generations of paint without softening the modelling.
What is included:
— site survey, measurement of ceilings and corners, profile sketch
— master model and silicone mould made for your project
— reinforced gypsum casting of all elements
— delivery, fitting on gypsum adhesive, mitred corners
— seam filling, sanding, priming, painting on request
— reproduction and restoration of historic mouldings
