The Stone Restoration Handbook

Author : Chris Daniels
Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 1847979084
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Restoration Handbook written by Chris Daniels and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are an artisan, an architect or a homeowner, The Stone Restoration Handbook demonstrates the best approach and techniques to use when preserving and repairing historic buildings. It introduces the materials and the processes, and explains the proven methods to conserve, repair and restore stone, masonry, statuary and monuments. This new book is packed with illustrations, examples and advice on stone selection and working, lime and mortars, pointing, cleaning and repairing mortar and stone. It guides you through assessing the job on the first site visit through to discussing the options and difficulties you can face. This is essential reading for those who care for and repair historic buildings and monuments. Contents include: surveying for a conservation report; setting up workshop and tools; stone selection and working; lime and mortars; pointing; repairing mortar and stone; cleaning; consolidation; casting and scagliola. Superbly illustrated with 564 colour photographs.

Author : Ron O'Connor
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490960753
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Masonry written by Ron O'Connor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone Masonry - Stone Restoration Handbook. By Ron O'Connor. A Master Mason offers guidance to the Stone Restoration Industry. He shares information and experiences that are useful to Professionals and Academics. It raises awareness of practical issues that need to be considered when making decisions about stone. The skills, insights, practical advice, and techniques highlighted should help to facilitate Surveying, Draughtsmanship, Stone Production, and Fixing. The author's character and reflections, about the evolution of stone masonry, also add interest. There is guidance for Clients, Architects, Engineers, Official Approvers, Draughtsmen, Main Contractors, Restoration Companies, Stone Suppliers, Scaffolders, Fixers, Students etc. There are references to interesting projects and locations like, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, Greenwich, Lord Nelson's column - Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square where the Nelson Mandela's statue and stone base is located, Portland etc. The book includes interesting photographs, drawings, illustrations, and instructional sketches. All sorts of stone work is covered from monuments and memorials to castles and palaces, public buildings to period houses and church repairs. Ron O'Connor's Stone Restoration Handbook is sharing knowledge gathered by four generations.

Author : Elisabetta Princi
Publisher : Smithers Rapra
ISBN 13 : 1847355463
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Polymers in Stone Conservation written by Elisabetta Princi and published by Smithers Rapra. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is dedicated to the conservation of stone materials by the application of polymers. A short introduction on polymer chemistry is given to highlight their characteristics and properties. After the physical and chemical attributes of stone are summarised, the problems related to its degradation are discussed. Finally, the properties of the various polymers of potential value for stone restoration are reviewed and classified by schemes and tables, and pointers for the future are suggested.This handbook will be of great interest to those who share the author's enthusiasm for stone artworks and her dedication to their restoration and conservation.

Author : Maurizio Bertoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598727678
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Stone Maintenance and Restoration According to Maurizio Bertoli written by Maurizio Bertoli and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Marsoun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781411628571
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Stone Restoration Secrets written by Michael Marsoun and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 98 pages, 67 color photos, teaching the occupational techniques of an experienced professional stone, marble & tile restoration service contractor.

Author : Geoffrey Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317705025
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydraulic Lime Mortar for Stone, Brick and Block Masonry written by Geoffrey Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best practice guide to using hydraulic lime mortar is the result of a research project by the UK Limes team which studied the performance application and classification of hydraulic limes for the construction industry. It will prove invaluable for all building practitioners, contractors and tradesmen specifying or handling hydraulic lime on site. Containing many useful tables and charts to assist the practitioner, along with colour illustrations showing lime mortar in use, it also offers practical guidance on: the functions and properties of hydraulic lime; the constituent materials; mixing, reworking, protection and aftercare; and, mortar selection for durability, and health and safety issues

Author : Janet Burnett Grossman
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367237
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures written by Janet Burnett Grossman and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003-12-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteen papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators, and a practicing marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculpture. Contributors and their subjects include Marion True and Jerry Podany on changing approaches to conservation; Seymour Howard on restoration and the antique model; Nancy H. Ramage’s case study on the relationship between a restorer, Vincenzo Pacetti, and his patron, Luciano Bonaparte; Mette Moltesen on de-restoring and re-restoring in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Miranda Marvin on the Ludovisi collection; and Andreas Scholl on the history of restoration of ancient sculptures in the Altes Museum in Berlin. The book also features contributions by Elizabeth Bartman, Brigitte Bourgeois, Jane Fejfer, Angela Gallottini, Sascha Kansteiner, Giovanna Martellotti, Orietta Rossi Pinelli, Peter Rockwell, Edmund Southworth, Samantha Sportun, and Markus Trunk. Charles Rhyne summarizes the themes, approaches, issues, and questions raised by the symposium.

Author : Frederick M. Hueston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965257725
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Restoration & Maintenance: Troubleshooting Guide Problems & Solutions written by Frederick M. Hueston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max Schweidler
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368358
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper written by Max Schweidler and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati

Author : Giuseppe Fanone
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781983263859
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affordable Learning Guide: Concrete & Marble Polishing, and Many Other Specialty Skills written by Giuseppe Fanone and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Specialty Skills: A step by step Learning guide, with pictures of finished projects: Can also be used as a teaching aid in a classroom in learning renovation techniques. Concrete stain & polishing - Concrete grinding - Concrete crack repair - Marble Polishing & Repair - Terrazzo Polishing & Repair - Making any stone flooring flat - Removing scratches from marble and granite flooring - Granite Top Polishing - Marble Flooring repairs & Installations - Grout joint repair & replacement - Make a concrete floor look like marble - Create a Seamless floor with no grout joints - Make any stone shine like glass - If you love working with your hands this learning guide is for you - Specialty skills that no one teaches - Fix loose tiles, or marble flooring - Restore and not Destroy your marble floor - Make any stone flooring come to life again - Grind down concrete or marble, when floor is not flat - Helping people by restoring their marble or granite floors to looking new again. This Learning guide can show you how to start your own stone or concrete polishing business.