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The Preservation and Repair of Historic Log Buildings


Log buildings, because of their distinct material, physical structure, and sometimes their architectural design, can develop their own unique deterioration problems.
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Energy Checklist For Homes


There are many features about a home that make a difference in the amount of energy needed for heating, cooling and lighting. Thus, these features can have a major impact on the amount of money you devote to maintaining the winter and summer comfort of occupants.
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The Maintenance, Repair and Replacement of Historic Cast Stone


The practice of using cheaper and more common materials on building exteriors in imitation of more expensive natural materials...
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Architectural Character


There are different ways of understanding old buildings. They can be seen as examples of specific building types, which are usually related to a building's function, such as schools, courthouses or churches.
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Assessing Cleaning and Water-Repellent Treatments


Inappropriate cleaning and coating treatments are a major cause of damage to historic masonry buildings. While either or both treatments may be appropriate in some cases, they can be very destructive to historic masonry if they are not selected carefully.
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The Preservation and Repair of Historic Stained and Leaded Glass


Glass is a highly versatile medium. In its molten state, it can be spun, blown, rolled, cast in any shape, and given any color. Once cooled, it can be polished, beveled, chipped, etched, engraved, or painted. Of all the decorative effects possible with glass, however, none is more...
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The Repair and Thermal Upgrading of Historic Steel Windows


Windows are among the most vulnerable features of historic buildings undergoing rehabilitation. This is especially the case with rolled steel windows, which are often mistakenly not deemed worthy of preservation in the conversion of old buildings to new uses.
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The Preservation of Historic Adobe Buildings


The adobe, or sun-dried brick, is one of the oldest and most common building materials known to man. Traditionally, adobe bricks were never kiln fired. Unbaked adobe bricks consisted of sand, sometimes gravel, clay, water, and often straw or grass mixed together by hand...
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The Preservation of Historic Pigmented Structural Glass


The dramatic growth and popularization of the early 20th century Art Deco, Streamline, and Moderne architectural styles were fueled, in part, by technological advances in the building materials industry.
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Appropriate Methods for Reducing Lead Paint Hazards


Lead-based paint, a toxic material, was widely used in North America on both the exteriors and interiors of buildings until well into the second
half of the twentieth century. If a "historic" place is broadly defined in terms of time as having attained...

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