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Heritage Brick
Heritage vs Modern Brick: Part 1
  • December 18, 2018
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Heritage and Modern Brick Manufacturing: An Overview Brick is brick, however beyond the initial aesthetics there are many, less obvious characteristics of new brick that to restoration are much more relevant. The first step to understanding how important it is to match your historic brick during a restoration is to understand the difference between a […]

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Historic and Modern Arches
  • December 14, 2018
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In most modern brick buildings, the single wythe veneer of brick is supported across window, and door openings either by a hidden steel lintel, basically a piece of angle iron, or by a reinforced concrete. Sometimes openings are also supported by reinforced brickwork, typically post-tensioned in a soldier arrangement (laid vertically.) Often the head of […]

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Historic Mortar
Matching Historic Lime Mortars
  • December 7, 2018
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  Preliminary research is necessary to ensure that the proposed repointing work is both physically and visually appropriate to the building. Analysis of unweathered portions of the historic mortar to which the new mortar will be matched can suggest appropriate mixes for the repointing mortar so that it will not damage the building because it […]

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Brick Cleaning
Intricacies of Air Abrasive Cleaning
  • October 6, 2015
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Intricacies of Air Abrasive Cleaning The decision to preform cleaning on a historic building is not one that should be made lightly. Cleaning can have significant physical and aesthetic results both positively and negatively. The first step must be to undertake a detailed investigation to determine whether cleaning should be preformed and, if so, how […]

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Heritage vs Modern Brick: Part 1
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