White Peak Launch
Buxton Lime launch traditional limewash with superior performance. RENOVATION work on the country's traditional and historic buildings is a booming market - but there's one big challenge.
Clients, whether they are English Heritage or private owners, are seeking traditional materials and techniques to capture the original character and fabric of a building. And for specifiers and builders, that can spell traditional headaches: sourcing suitable materials, quality and cost.
At least one area has now been covered. The introduction of White Peak Finest Buxton Limewash combines the qualities of a traditional limewash with all the benefits of modern know-how.
It's produced by Buxton Lime, a company with more than a century of experience in lime and the UK's leading supplier of lime products.
Limewash provides an inexpensive coating that gives protection and beauty to render, plasterwork and masonry on internal and external walls. It's one of the earliest forms of paint and has been used in the UK since Roman times. As it ages, limewash develops a patina unrivalled by modern paints and renders, and its greater permeability allows the building fabric to breathe.
So what's so special about White Peak? In the first place, its content - quarried in Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District, long recognised for its high purity lime. Where limewash is applied without pigment, it will harden white and the degree of whiteness depends on the purity of the raw material. White Peak is an exceptionally brilliant white limewash.
Buxton Lime's advanced manufacturing producers a limewash of unparalleled performance. The use of ultrafine particles in the mix means maximum coverage and a vibrant rich finish - with minimum stirring.
White Peak also has a shorter 'maturing' time and better permeability than conventional limewash. It's consistent in chemical and physical characteristics thanks to Buxton Lime's stringent quality-controlled manufacturing. It contains no toxic compounds or solvents.
It holds pigments well, giving greater quality to colours. As well as being available in white, it's available as a coloured limewash in 25 ready-mixed authentic colours, using only traditional mineral pigments. These can be used neat to replicate rich and deep historic colours, or they can be used as concentrates to produce more delicate colours when mixed with white.
White Peak can be applied with a long-haired bristle brush or by spray. It's available in 1-litre, 5-litre and 10-litre containers.
In short, there's no better limewash on the market. For quality renovation and maintenance work, White Peak Finest Buxton Limewash from BLI is the natural choice.
Editors' notes
White Peak is a calcium hydroxide suspension in water. As the water evaporates, the calcium hydroxide combines with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form calcium carbonate (chalk). This is known as carbonisation. During this process the limewash hardens and bonds to the substrate. But it remains vapour permeable, so will not trap moisture in the substrate to which it is applied.
White Peak is normally applied to a porous background such as sandstone, clay bricks or lime plaster. It should not be applied to backgrounds that contain waterproofing materials or to dense impermeable substrates, for example concrete without a suitable primer coat.
Buxton Lime, part of the Tarmac group, is the country's largest producer of lime and lime products. It has been involved in producing lime in Derbyshire for more than a century and cement since the 1960s. Buxton Lime's base in Buxton, Derbyshire, is situated on extensive deposits of limestone of exceptional purity.
