About Renaissance beams!
A Brief History
Penny came up with the process approximately ten years ago after a client asked if there was anything she could do with the black beams in her 17th century cottage. The local conservation officer would not allow sand blasting as it was a listed building and chemical / hand stripping was too messy and would take too long.
After a bit of trial and error a recipe was evolved. Over the next year the process (recipe and technique) were refined and improved.
August 2005 Penny was a finalist in the County Living Magazine "Women in Rural Enterprise" for the "back from black" beam process, from this feature enquiries and work came in further a field (Kent, Norfolk, Devon, Liverpool etc).
July 2006 Penny was a finalist in the "Cotswold Life" Business awards (Innovation of the year).
November 2006 Renaissance Beams listed in the Cotswold top 50 businesses in the "Cotswold Life" magazine.
Renaissance beams is a small family business that reaches as far as France.