The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

Contents:

Forward by Philip Venning Secretary, SPAB
Advisory note
Preface

1.    Look before you leap
2.    Getting the work done
3.    Breathability and damp
4.    Walls
5.    Structural movement
6.    Roofs
7.    Timber and carpentry
8.    Solid floors
9.    Chimneys, flues and fireplaces
10.  Windows, doors and joinery
11.  Plasters, renders and roughcast
12.  Paints and finishes
13.  Building services
14.  Living for today and tomorrow

Acknowledgements
Picture credits
Index

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Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Buildings and natural finishes
Wall systems
Moisture and buildings
Building design

Chapter 2: Preparations
Tools
Application techniques
Wall preparation
Site preparation
Aggregates

Chapter 3: Lime-based plasters & renders
How lime-based plasters work
Preparing, plasters and renders
Application techniques

Chapter 4: Earth-based plasters & renders
How earth-based plasters work
Material preparation and mixing
Application techniques

Chapter 5: Lime- and earth-based paints & washes
Paints – their ingredients and attributes
Limewashes
Casein paints
Alis clay paints
Fresco painting

Chapter 6: Finishes from around the world
Marmarino – Italy
Tadelakt – Morocco
Litema – South Africa
Shikkui & Arakabe – Japan
Adobe – North America

Resources and suppliers
Bibliography
Index

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Contents:

Acknowledgement
Introduction
John Fidler

Part I: Research 1
Stone consolidants: Brethane ^TM
Report of an 18-year review of Brethane ^TM – treated sites
Bill Martin, David Mason, Jeanne Marie Teutonico, Sasha
Chapman, Roy Butlin and Time Yates 3

Lime treatments:
An overview of lime watering and shelter coating of friable historic limestone masonry
John Fidler 19

Lime method evaluation:
A survey of sites where lime-based conservation techniques
Have been employed to treat decaying limestone
Catherine Woolfitt 29

An investigation of sacrificial graffiti barriers for historic mansonry
Nicola Ashurst, Sasha Chapman, Susan Macdonald, Roy Butlin
and Matthew Murray 45

Soft wall capping experiments
Heather Viles, Chris Groves and Chris Wood 59

Part II: Development and Case Studies 75
Conserving fractured and detaching stone tracery:
Developing a technique for the stabilization and
consolidation of fire-damaged tracery at the
Church of Holy Cross Temple, Bristol
Chris Wood and Conlin Burns 77

A solution for the stone repair of a cracked
Primary column at the Wellington Arch,
Hyde Park Corner, London
Les Ayling 97

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