Practical Building Conservation: Timber

ISBN-13: 9780754645542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 498 str.

UK) England Historic (Historic England

Opis

Timber deals with wide-ranging use of the material in historic buildings, from vast structural timber-frames through to high-class joinery and simple fixings. Particular attention is paid to how and why timber decays or faults occur, and the methods of assessing and dealing with this. The bulk of the book covers appropriate methods of repair and maintenance.

Spis treści

About this book.  Using these books.  Part 1  1. Materials and History of Use  2. Wood: Biology and Properties  3. Conversion and Seasoning  4. Water and Dimensional Stability  5. Traditional Tools and Working Methods  Part 2  6. Deterioration and Damage: Insects and Fungi  7. Environmental Problems  8. Other Causes of Deterioration  Part 3  9. Assessment: Understanding Buildings and Their Condition  10.  Structural Timbers  11. Non-Structural Timbers (joinery)  12. Fixings and Hardware  13. Specialist Investigations  Part 4  14. Repair and Treatment  15. Introduction  16. Timber-Frame Structures  17. Preservative Pre-Treatments' Adhesives, Fillers and Fastenings  18. Insect Infestation and Fungal Decay  19. Upgrading Historic Buildings to Meet Modern Standards  Part 5  20. Care and Maintenance: Continuing Care  Conclusions.  Glossary.  Index

O autorze

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.