Pure Lime — breathable walls,
the traditional way.
Pure Lime is the traditional finish in KCBerry's six-system range — a mineral lime plaster, hand-trowelled in 33 muted tones. Unlike our polymer-bonded microcement systems, Pure Lime is fully vapour-permeable: it lets old stone, brick and cob walls breathe, buffers indoor humidity, and belongs on period and heritage properties where a cement finish would trap damp. Slaked lime, natural pigments, no polymers, no plastic sealer — a quiet, honest surface built the way lime finishes have been built for centuries. Delivered across Ireland.
For walls that
need to breathe.
Pure Lime is specified on period and heritage buildings — Georgian and Victorian townhouses, old stone and rubble-fill farmhouses, brick cottages, cob walls, and any structure originally built with lime mortar. It is the correct interior finish for bedrooms, living rooms, hallways, snugs, dining rooms and period bathrooms, and it is compatible with existing lime plaster and lime wash. It is also chosen in new-build interiors when the client wants a natural, non-plastic, hand-worked wall surface with a softer palette than the 73-colour microcement range. Not specified for floors, wet-immersion pools, or high-traffic commercial surfaces — those use the KCBerry microcement systems.
Pure Lime
vs microcement.
Microcement (systems 01–05) is a modern polymer-bonded cement composite: dense, sealed with 2K polyurethane, engineered for floors, wet zones and pools. It is waterproof, hard-wearing and available in 73 colours. Pure Lime is the opposite specification — a traditional slaked-lime plaster, vapour-permeable, un-sealed, hand-applied in 33 mineral tones. The rule of thumb: new-build interiors, floors and wet zones use microcement; period stone, brick, cob or lime-built walls use Pure Lime so the structure can breathe. In a period refurbishment, both often appear in the same house — Pure Lime on the original walls, Microtraffic or Microfinishing in the new extension.
Two to three hand-trowelled passes over a mineral primer, 24–48 hours between coats, finished raw or with a breathable mineral topcoat — carbonates progressively harder over years and lasts decades, backed by a 5-year warranty on materials and application.
Honest,
itemised pricing.
Supply-only Pure Lime typically works out at €28–€48 per m² in materials, depending on tone and topcoat. Professional hand-applied supply-and-install for period walls lands between €90 and €160 per m² — the range reflects substrate condition, historic prep and consolidation of old lime plaster, wall height, and the number of passes needed to build the finish evenly on irregular surfaces.
Every project is quoted individually after a short site conversation, so the number you get is the number you pay. See the full pricing page for tier detail or request a free quote below.