FPDC Awards win for Hayles and Howe Ltd

Hayles and Howe are delighted to have been awarded the 2012 Internal Plastering Award by the FPDC (Federation of Plastering and Drywall Contractors) for restoration works at the British Armed Forces’ Chaplaincy Centre, Amport House, Andover.

The award was presented to MD David Harrison, Matt Cook and Robin Harrison at a celebratory luncheon in the Plaisterers’ Hall on Tuesday 5 February. The company was represented at the luncheon by Jenny Harrison, Nick Roden, Boyd Rogers and Louise Wheeler; David Close attended on behalf of the clients, PriDE.

This was a complex project in a Grade II listed house designed in 1857 in Elizabethan style by William Burn and set in beautiful Lutyens gardens. For the first phase of the works the company’s talented site team replaced a failed coffered ceiling in the Snooker room, which required in-situ run work, this included a staggering 48 hand ruled mitres to complete.  Hayles and Howe returned to Amport House in September and replaced the failed main ground floor vestibule ceiling with a new split lath and lime plaster replacement.

Judges deemed that the coffered ceiling formed with in-situ run plain moulded beams and perimeter cornice were reconstructed with riven laths and lime plasters to a high degree of accuracy.  All intersecting beam mitres had to be ruled by hand.

The quality of the finish to the large vestibule ceiling was said to be 'exceptional'. Judges praised the work as an excellent demonstration of the plasterer's craft, using traditional materials, noting that the industry still boasts true craftsmen.

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