Cleaning Historic Buildings (v. 1 & 2)

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 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, these books examine the various attitudes and current cleaning practices, along with the role and need for analysis of substrates and soiling. The books also offer advice on dealing with special cleaning problems, such as the removal of paint, graffiti and metallic stains, and provide an assesment of the cleaning methods currently available.

ISBN 1873394128   Pages 400 ISBN13 9781873394120 (What's this?)   Part volume Substrates, Soiling and Investigation / Cleaning Materials and Processes Publisher Donhead Publishing   Volumes 2 Hardbacks Imprint Donhead Publishing   Published in Shaftesbury Format Hardback   Height (mm) 244 Publication date 01 Jan 1994   Width (mm) 172 DEWEY 720.288   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Technical/vocational DEWEY edition DC20

Volume 1 Attitudes to cleaning; understanding building surfaces; soiling; masonry substrates; cleaning metals and timber; case studies. Volume 2 Selecting a cleaning method; water washing; air abrasive and mechanical cleaning; chemical cleaning; special cleaning systems; specific cleaning problems; removal of paint and graffiti; essential practicalities and preliminaries; case studies.

This is the most comprehensive, most scholarly, most important book yet to have been written on this subject and is likely to remain so for a considerable time. ASCHB Newsletter - should be on the bookshelf of any person involved in the cleaning process. Stone Industries

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