Philip Gaches
@PGaches
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master plasterer. father of boys. love dogs. love nature. love outdoors. like making things. like people. architecture. rugby.
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New Elizabethan ceiling completed today at Snowre Hall Norfolk.
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We have been reflecting on our project in Norfolk last year. We were commissioned to remove this inappropriate plasterboard ceiling and replace it with something to suit this 17th century house. We used appropriate tools, materials and techniques for this authentic finish.
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Will finished the restoration of this 16th century fireplace today. This is the third fireplace we have restored in this Cambridgeshire house. Its great when your kids can do work to this standard 😊
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Delighted to announce my book has just been published. Its the first and only how to guide to creating Elizabethan and Jacobean plaster ceilings. Priced at £18 plus p&p.
If your interested please message me with your address and i will send payment details.
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My sons have been carrying out the restoration of this beam casing in situ at Lilford Park. I think we can safely say Will’s apprenticeship is complete but the learning never ends.
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Please note. There are now just a few places remaining on our Elizabethan plastering course in association with Best of Lime suppliers of chalk lime plasters this coming May in Scotland. If you are thinking of coming or would like the details please message me.
#elizabethan
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Day 1 plastering this Elizabethan ceiling today with some students.
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We are just completing this new Elizabethan ceiling using tools, techniques and materials in line with the 16th century to create an authentic finish.
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The first casts are out of the moulds for the Castle Howard frieze.
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The boys are installing these overdoors we manufactured last week. Here in the library at Apethorpe Palace.
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We are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for the Philippe Rotthier prize 2024 for our work to create the new Solar ceiling at Icomb Place. We will be at the award ceremony in Brussels in October and hope to see some of you there. Thankyou to the Judges.
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Sorry couldn’t resist posting one final shot with the lights on.
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New project started today in the Cotswolds. A new ceiling in the Elizabethan style. We will be using tools ,techniques and materials as were used in the 16th century.
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We are delighted to announce that we are here at the glorious Castle Howard creating a brand new decorative plasterwork scheme in the Cabinet room. In collaboration with our friends at Skillingtons and
@francis_terry_architect
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Each piece of enrichment on this new in situ cornice here at Castle Howard is individually hand made and applied. Over 2000 pieces so far. The frieze designed by Francis Terry and modelled by Luke Preston. Hand crafted by my sons and I.
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Im delighted to have just been commissioned to write a new book on the subject of traditional plastering. It will begin with a thorough chapter covering best practice for simple lime plastering and will include chapters covering aspects of decorative plaster,scagliola and more.
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We are just finishing up our restoration of this lovely 18th century ceiling. Hand modelling the missing details just as the stuccatore Mr Pedroli did originally.
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We completed our new Elizabethan ceiling project today with 2 nourishing coats of limewash.
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Three days into this Elizabethan plastering course and the ceiling begins to look finished.
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We are repairing this old ceiling “like for like” using reeds and earth plaster.
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We are all self isolating following a trip to Portugal so to keep everyone busy we’ve just done this to our lounge ceiling.
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Here are 3 brand new in situ ceilings we have created in the last couple of years. I’m so delighted with our young team. Next in line is a new Robert Adam design commission.
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Today we have completed this in situ Regency style ceiling. The apple corner detail is a reference to Sir Isaac Newtons family that once lived here and of course our scallop shell. Centrepiece supplied by R S Plaster Mouldings.
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So thats it. The course in Elizabethan plasterwork here in Scotland is complete. The ceiling is finished. New friends made and old ones well met. Great job everyone.
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Delighted to say sales of my book are still strong. It is the first and only “ how to guide” to Elizabethan and Jacobean plasterwork containing step by step instructions, mixes to use and all of the tools you need to create beautiful plasterwork. Books available via our website.
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So day 2 of our Elizabethan plastering course is complete and now the ceiling really starts to take shape. Ribs are getting finished and bears are appearing. All done using Limecote by
#bestoflime
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I used to feel the need to do everything on site personally as i didnt think anyone paid attention to detail like me but im now surrounded by such talented people i take great delight in standing back and watching them create beautiful things like this ashlar so finely finished.
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We have nearly finished this new Elizabethan style ceiling in Kent. Working with 8 students we created one of my favourite ceilings.
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Here in sunny Surrey this week working to conserve Englands oldest plaster ceiling. Things are beginning to look finished. All of the props have been removed and the ceiling is stable. We are filling the worst of the cracks and repairing a few areas that had collapsed.
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Heres a few shots of our North Devon project finished. In collaboration with
@rebecca_gilling
we have created this 17th century frieze. I love the drama of the light and shadow on this one. More projects like this on the way.
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We are hand carving this wood mould to wet cast this fleur de lys pattern from the 16th century for an upcoming project. Carving by hand will result in imperfections giving the end result an authentic finish.
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During my 44 year career i have plastered ceilings in palaces and many of the countries finest houses but this little gem is my favourite.
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Nearing completion of our new Elizabethan ceiling project down in the Cotswolds today.
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Apethorpe Palace Library project is almost complete now. It’s taken me and my sons/apprentices nearly 5 months.
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Today we completed the course here in Scotland for Elizabethan plasterwork. The students have hand crafted this first half of the ceiling demonstrating great skill manipulating Limecote from
#bestoflime
into many different shapes. Next week 8 more students will complete it.
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That’s us just about finished in the library at Apethorpe Palace until September.
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Elizabethan plastering course 2024 Kent England. We are delighted to be able to offer the opportunity to learn how the Elizabethan plasterers created beautiful ceilings like these. 10 delegates will spend 5 days working alongside Master Plasterer Philip Gaches on a live project.
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Tomorrow we leave for Scotland where over the next 2 weeks with 20 students we will hand form in situ this Elizabethan style ceiling using tools, materials and techniques authentic to the 16th association with
#bestoflime
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We had some fun yesterday afternoon freehand modelling this over the oven at home in the Auricular style of the early 17th century.
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Today we completed the plaster wave pattern to the walls in this art deco bathroom in the Cotswolds.
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And so ends day 3 of the second week of our Elizabethan plastering course here in the Scottish highlands. Twig armatures have been collected from the garden on which we are hanging Thistles in Limecote by
#bestoflime
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Tomorrow we will complete the conservation of Englands oldest ceiling. Using a bespoke group of techniques areas of the ceiling displaying various issues have been stabilised.Claudia Fiocchetti will touch in our work then it can be enjoyed by visitors for many years to come.
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We have completed our new in situ ceiling at Newton House today with the installation of this centre piece and coat of arms.
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We have installed the heraldic shield in the Library at Apethorpe Palace today.
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My youngest sone Jude is enjoying a day in the studio creating this master mould of acorns and oak leaves for a cornice enrichment.
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We are applying chalk and lime mortar today as a core for the ribs on our latest project.
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The new library at Apethorpe is progressing nicely. The door surrounds are complete next will be a chair rail then skirting blocks and skirting. Finally will be a Scagliola fireplace in carrera statuaria.
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We have just completed this brand new Jacobean ceiling. The team hand crafted the work in situ in just 4 days including hand modelling Doctrina.
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We have been commissioned to recreate this Elizabethan ceiling. We will use materials, tools and techniques as were originally used to create an authentic finish. It will all be freehand.
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Here’s my eldest son Will enriching the cornice at Apethorpe Palace today. My boys have been able to learn huge amounts from this project. That will be the thing I remember most when it’s complete.
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New project started today in Surrey. West Horsley Place has within it the oldest (1547) plaster ceiling in England. Known as the Geraldine ceiling it is in a very poor state. Over the next few weeks the team will install several different systems of suspension to make it safe
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Good progress on our new Elizabethan ceiling project in Norfolk. My youngest son made formed the side of the beam.
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Images from day 3 here on our Elizabethan plastering course in Scotland. The students are doing great work using Limecote from
#bestoflime
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Thats a wrap for the first half of our new Elizabethan ceiling in Kent. 4 new students next week to complete the second half.
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We have now completed this new Elizabethan ceiling in the Cotswolds. We used tools, techniques and materials in line with the 16th century. Hope you like it. And if youd like one please get in touch.
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We are here in Yorkshire today where we are starting a major new project. The complete restoration of a room in a major historic house. Here are a few images of what we will be creating in situ. Working with our friends at Skillingtons, Luke Preston and Francis Terry architects.
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Here’s Will getting ready to run this plaster beam casing in situ. Good man.
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Here on our new enriched rib Jacobean ceiling today we are finishing off the ribs.
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Things really coming together with our new Elizabethan ceiling here in Kent. We are using Limecote by
#bestoflime
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We have just about finished the lathing of this new ceiling in Yorkshire. The Cornice brackets are fixed ready for lathing on Monday and then we can apply the first coat of lime plaster.
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The original here at Levens hall in Cumbria and our new ceiling in Kent. Linked by the by family history.
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Here in our studio today making this centre piece for the restoration of Lilford Park.
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“The work in these old ceilings is generally too irregular to suit the correct taste of the modern workman, yet the effect is softer and more pleasing than that of the mechanical accuracy of the present day. “ J A Gotch 1909.See the Bromley by Bow ceiling at the V&A.
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Recent project we completed in Kent with some friends in just 10 days.
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We are delighted to say our January 24 Elizabethan plastering course in association with
@bestoflime
is now fully booked. We are making a reserve list in case someone drops out so please contact us to be included. There will be more courses announced soon i promise.
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We have finished the plasterwork on our new Elizabethan ceiling project in Norfolk. This beam is my favourite part and is inspired by Some 16th C work at Fiddlers Croft in Much Hadham.
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Anna has finished the plaster boss sample now to make them in situ.
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Day 1 of our Elizabethan course here in Scotland is over i think it went quite well.
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Not long now until we start our Elizabethan plastering course in Scotland in association with
@bestoflime
chalk plasters. Both weeks are now full. We will be creating a brand new ceiling in the Elizabethan style using tools, techniques and materials authentic to the period.
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Here at the gorgeous Charlton House today in London. Ceiling conservation following a leak
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We have been rather taken by surprise by the number of books ordered so please be patient with us as we process the sales. Thankyou Philip
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We are just completing the chair rail at Apethorpe Palace this morning. Very lovely and Sunny here today.
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The scaffold has come down revealing one of our recently completed ceilings on our Cotswolds project.
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The importance of the correct filling of cracks in plaster is often overlooked. Materials such as gypsum are used inappropriately poorly. Here we are injecting a soft lime and powdered marble deeply into the cracks to create a long lasting repair.
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We are transferring the design onto the laths with lime wash ready to begin plastering.
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We are trialling English sheepswool fleece for our lime plaster as an alternative to imported Chinese hair. We like it so far.
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There you go. All done. Now the ends will be hand mitred using joint rules.
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Images from day 2 of our Elizabethan plastering course here in Scotland. We are using Limecote plaster from
#bestoflime
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Great progress being made by the team at Castle Howard this week.
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Before and after we replastered the cute Cobham Dairy for the Landmark Trust.
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Scagliola column we made today in Italy with our friend and scagliola maestro Maurizio Feliziani.
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So day 2 of our Elizabethan plastering course is complete and now the ceiling really starts to take shape. Ribs are getting finished and bears are appearing. All done using Limecote by
#bestoflime
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The design is complete for our next new ceiling. This one is Jacobean in style with more elaborate enriched ribs. There will be a figure of Doctrina in the centre and various other devices.
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