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Practical Building Conservation: Stone

By Historic England
Series: Practical Building Conservation
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Practical Building Conservation: Stone explores the extensive historical uses of stone, from simple masonry to intricate carvings and decorations. It explains why stone deteriorates, how to assess its condition, and details practical methods for treatment, repair, and maintenance of stone structures.
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This book is ideal for conservation professionals, building contractors, architects, surveyors, educators, and anyone involved in the repair or maintenance of historic stonework.

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Stone considers the wide variety of historical uses, from simple masonry walling through to elaborate carving and decoration.

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Practical Building Conservation: Stone considers the wide variety of historical uses, from simple masonry walling through to elaborate carving and decoration. The book explores why stone decays or fails and how to assess and understand the causes. It then focuses on the practical methods of treatment, repair, and maintenance.

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  • Practical Building Conservation: Stone
    Practical Building Conservation: Stone
    Practical Building Conservation: Stone considers the wide variety of historical uses, from simple masonry walling through to elaborate carving and decoration. The book explores why stone decays or fails and how to assess and understand the causes. It then focuses on the practical methods of treatment, repair, and maintenance.
    By Historic England
    Hardback
    $31800
    Available
    Ships in 4-6 weeks

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The book is praised for offering extensive information and practical advice on stone conservation. It is recognised as a comprehensive and user-friendly guide, filled with photographs and diagnostic tables. Industry professionals value it as an essential resource for both specialists and general contractors alike.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780754645528

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 March 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 1045g

Pages: 348

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Historic England Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Practical Building Conservation

About the Author

The contents reflect the work of the Building Conservation and Research Team, their colleagues at Historic England, and their consultants and researchers, who together have many decades of accumulated experience in dealing with deteriorating building materials and systems of all types. This multi-disciplinary team of architects, surveyors, conservators and scientists are responsible for standard setting and research across a wide range of Historic England activities. The team specialises in dealing with the practical, technical and scientific aspects of building materials decay and their treatment. The aim has been to provide practical advice by advocating a common approach of firstly understanding the material or building element and why it is deteriorating, and then dealing with the causes. The books concentrate on those aspects which are significant in conservation terms, and reflect the requests for information received by Historic England.

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