Plaster Molding Restoration
Repair and preserve damaged original plaster detail without losing the character that makes the room.
01Overview
Most of the plaster in an older home is worth keeping. We retain sound original material, stabilize what has moved, and recreate only what is truly gone.
Cracking usually reflects movement, past leaks or failed keys behind the lath, not a material that has reached the end of its life. We assess what is sound, what needs to be re-secured, and what has been lost, then work in that order.
When a usable original profile remains, it becomes the reference for the repair. When a section is gone entirely, the work moves into molding replication; when the damage is to a medallion, panel or relief detail, see decorative plaster repair.
02How we approach it
Keep what is sound. Match what is missing.
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Assess what is sound
From your photos, then in person, we sort the plaster into what is sound, what has come loose and what has been lost.
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Stabilize and re-secure
Loose sections are secured back in place and cracks repaired, with the original material left where it is.
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Recreate only what is missing
Lost sections are made to the surviving profile and blended until the seam can’t be found.
03An example
A cornice, before and after
Drag the handle, or just scroll. The repair has worked when you can’t find the seam.
Illustrative images, generated to show the approach. They will be replaced with photographs of our own projects.
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Other original details we restore
05Start here
Have a detail you want to save?
Send photos of the molding, cornice, ceiling detail or railing. We look at every request ourselves and tell you whether it can be repaired, matched or recreated, before anyone schedules a visit.