Name: Heritage Skills Workshop
Start: 2024-11-14T09:45:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-14T16:00:00+00:00
Location: The Great Escape

Update and refresh your knowledge on working with historic buildings, and have a go at using lime mortar for repointing. Includes lunch.
About this Event

This skills workshop is aimed at those who support and advise both historic building owners and the construction industry.

The morning session will give you an update / refresher on looking after historic buildings, provided by Conservation Architect and SPAB Scholar James Innerdale, followed by an afternoon on lime mortars with Master Stonemason Paul Booth. This includes the chance to have a go yourself.

The training is free, and includes lunch and refreshments.

Agenda

09:45 Arrival and Coffee

10:00 Welcome and introduction

10:15 Understanding Historic Buildings – James Innerdale, Conservation Architect

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Importance of maintenance, including key preventative maintenance tasks – James Innerdale

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Lime Pointing hands-on skills session with Paul Booth, Master Stonemason

14:30 Coffee Break

15:00 Lime pointing with Paul Booth continued

16:00 Depart