Stone wall in loft ... feature

[overseashoosier]

Hi,

We need advise. We live in a terraced house and are converting our loft. One wall is rough stone and we are keeping this as a feature. The difficulty is:

1. filling in the holes in the wall without the expense of re-pointing.
2. filling in the gaps between the stairs and the wall.
3. holes in wall where old joists were removed. These holes show above the level of the floor and carpet.

We have currently used expanding foam, but it looks ugly even after we try to stain the foam a similar colour to the stone.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Some pics attached.

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[freddiemercurystwin]

Anything you do apart from repointing/rebuilding where there are old holes or gaps or whatever will look crap. The cost of re-pointing etc would seem to be less than insulating, boarding and plastering. In my job I do a lot of work on public attractions all over the world, when we want to make something look like a stone wall or do some rockwork, it gets built out of stone or cement!

Out of interest did BC kick off about having to insulate the wall, or have had to add a little extra elsewhere?

edited for spelling!

 

[overseashoosier]

Thanks for the quick answer.

BC didn't have a problem with it (thankfully). We did want to leave open the brick work on the other end of the loft as well, but they said "no" to that. Neither neighbor on the other side have their loft converted so there is no insulation between. I think because we did one wall they let us get away with the stone feature wall.

 

[geraldthehamster]

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Some pics attached.

Mortar, bucket, pointing trowel. Not expensive and very therapeutic.

Cut back the foam and point over it.

Cheers
Richard

 

[overseashoosier]

Any pointers for where the banister is next to the stone wall? The builder filled the gap with expanding foam.

Also, do you recomment filling the joist holes with cement?

thanks for your help, I may need therapy after this therapeutic job.