Cleaning Historic Buildings: v. 2
Cleaning Historic Buildings: v. 2

Author: Nicola Ashurst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1317741382

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What happens to the fabric of a historic building if it is not cleaned? What is soiling, how does it affect the building? What cleaning methods should be used? This second of a comprehensive two-volume guide addresses these important and controversial questions, along with many others, and offers practical guidance on appropriate cleaning techniques, backed up with useful case study material. Based on the author's extensive on-site involvement at trial and contract stage in many cleaning and surface repair project, this book examines the various attitudes and current cleaning practices, along with the role and need for analysis of substrates and soiling. It also offers advice on dealing with special cleaning problems, such as the removal of paint, graffiti and metallic stains, and provides an assesment of the cleaning methods currently available.

Cleaning Historic Buildings: Cleaning materials and processes
Cleaning Historic Buildings: Cleaning materials and processes

Author: Nicola Ashurst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This second volume of Cleaning historic buildings deals with special cleaning problems such as the removal of paint, grafitti, metallic stains and so on, and provide an assessment of the cleaning methods currently available.

Cleaning Historic Buildings: v. 1
Cleaning Historic Buildings: v. 1

Author: Nicola Ashurst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1317741137

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What happens to the fabric of a historic building if it is not cleaned? What is soiling, how does it affect the building? What cleaning methods should be used? This first of a comprehensive two-volume guide addresses these important and controversial questions, along with many others, and offers practical guidance on appropriate cleaning techniques, backed up with useful case study material. Based on the author's extensive on-site involvement at trial and contract stage in many cleaning and surface repair project, this book examines the various attitudes and current cleaning practices, along with the role and need for analysis of substrates and soiling. It also offers advice on dealing with special cleaning problems, such as the removal of paint, graffiti and metallic stains, and provides an assesment of the cleaning methods currently available.

Cleaning Historic Buildings: Substrates, soiling and investigations
Cleaning Historic Buildings: Substrates, soiling and investigations

Author: Nicola Ashurst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The first of a two-volume set, this book addresses questions concerning the cleaning of historic buildings: what happens to the fabric of a historic building if it is not cleaned; what is soiling, and how does it affect the building; what cleaning materials should be used?

Cleaning Techniques in Conservation Practice
Cleaning Techniques in Conservation Practice

Author: Norman R. Weiss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1317704967

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This book is being simultaneously published as a special issue of the Journal of Architectural Conservation, and presents the very latest research and developments in the cleaning of buildings, sculpture and monuments. It covers both wet and dry micro abrasive systems, other types of abrasives, laser cleaning methods and proprietary poultices for specialized applications. The material presented is supported by case study examples from an international selection of major buildings and monuments, where the techniques have recently been tried and tested.