A technical discussion for the Guild — and anyone who owns an Art Nouveau façade There’s a conversation that doesn’t happen often enough in restoration circles. Notabout what colour to paint historic ironwork. Not about which style to preserve or how toapproach the decorative details. It’s about what happens before any of that. The preparation. […]

A call to craftspeople — and a wake-up call for owners of historic homes If you’ve worked on historic façades long enough, you already know what I’m about tosay. You’re standing in front of a beautiful period home. The stonework is suffering. The render is crumbling. There’s efflorescence creeping down the front, staining everythingbelow it.

A guide for craftspeople and owners of historic rendered facades I would like to start a discussion about traditional facade plastering and mouldings. It becomes harder every year to find craftsmen who still work the traditional way,pulling mouldings by hand, making their own scrapers, using lime based materials,and guiding profiles the proper way. But before