✦
Where Artistry Begins
Lime Venetian plaster, polished plaster and Marmorino, tinted to your colour in Birmingham and laid on Poole walls by our own applicators.
Zavoré supplies and installs authentic Italian lime based Venetian plaster, and we offer Venetian plastering in Poole for harbourside homes, quayside apartments and older houses in the Old Town. We are based in Birmingham, our own applicators travel to site, and we tint every colour to your approved sample before it leaves us. Order a sample board to start, or email photos and your postcode to sales@zavore.co.uk.
Poole is defined by its water, and the water shapes both the houses and the way they are lived in.
Poole stands on one of the largest natural harbours in the world, with Brownsea Island in the middle of it and heathland and pine woods around the shore. The Old Town beside the Quay has medieval and Georgian buildings, including merchants’ houses that date from Poole’s days as a trading port, and narrow streets close to the water. Other waterside buildings are newer apartment blocks overlooking the Quay.
On the Sandbanks peninsula and around the shore at Lilliput, Parkstone and Canford Cliffs, there are large detached houses and contemporary homes with big windows and open plan rooms facing the water. Newer homes like these have flat plasterboard walls. Elsewhere Poole has plenty of interwar and postwar housing, including bungalows, with older terraces near the Old Town and in Parkstone.
There are two quite different kinds of wall here. In the Old Town and older terraces, walls are solid and old, and they need a breathable lime finish. In the new waterside homes, walls are flat and modern, and they can take a polished surface once the base coats are right.
For showers and wet rooms we suggest tadelakt on a waterproofed wall, not Venetian plaster.
We start with photos, then survey. We check the substrate, how flat the walls are, damp, cracks and movement, and how the room is used. A new open plan room needs the board joints reinforced and the right primer, and an old wall may need repair first. We tell you plainly what the wall needs.
Dates are agreed once you have signed off the sample and price. Poole is some way from Birmingham, so we plan the work in blocks of days and the team lays each coat in order. Narrow Old Town streets and limited parking near the Quay and on the peninsula make it worth telling us early about access, including any gated entrances or lift rules in apartment blocks.
Designers and architects can see how to specify a finish on our page for designers and architects. Builders and decorators can order tinted plaster for tracked delivery, open a trade account or learn the finish on our courses in Birmingham.
Our guide to Venetian plaster ceilings may be useful for open plan rooms. See also Venetian plaster installation and every area we cover.
Yes. Newer houses usually have flat plasterboard walls, which need joints reinforced and a suitable primer. Polished plaster or concrete effect then suits large open walls.
A breathable lime finish such as Marmorino. Solid old walls need to release moisture, and an acrylic coating forms a film instead.
Yes. Send us the building access rules, including lift booking, parking and working hours, and we will plan the job around them after the survey.
Yes. Our own applicators travel from Birmingham, and larger jobs are planned in blocks of days. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off.
To talk about your walls in Poole, call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm, or email sales@zavore.co.uk. A sample board is the easiest way to choose a colour.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Poole and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
Venetian plastering nearby in Dorchester, Bournemouth and Exeter. See every area we cover.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham.
Providing luxury finishes for the most prestigious addresses in the world
Venetian plaster, limewash, microcement, tadelakt, metallics, sculptural plaster and gold leaf, supplied and installed by our own team, with Venetian plaster taught at our Birmingham studio.
One list, run by the people who make the material. No noise, and nothing we would not want to read ourselves.
We email as the house has something worth saying, never daily. Unsubscribe from any email, or reply STOP to any text. We never pass your details to anyone.