Timber Decay in Buildings: The Conservation Approach to TreatmentThis is the first book to tackle all the issues relating to timber decay. It presents the facts and explores timber decay problems through case studies. These are illustrated with clear self-explanatory photographs for the reader to use as a diagnostic aid. Section 1 discusses timber as a living material, Section 2 deals with decay organisms and their habitat requirements. Section 3 moves on to the building as an environment for timber and discusses the ways in which wood responds to moisture change. Section 4 ends with an approach to timber decay which integrates knowledge on the decay organism, its requirements and natural predators with appropriate and targeted chemical treatments. |
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Contents
Origins and durability of building timber | 3 |
Sorption of water by timber | 16 |
Postharvest changes and decay | 23 |
Death watch beetle Xestobium rufovillosum | 37 |
Furniture beetle or woodworm Anobium punctatum | 55 |
Minor decay insects | 65 |
Dry rot | 76 |
Wet rots and minor decay fungi | 90 |
A historical perspective on timber | 119 |
Fire damage and dereliction | 142 |
Monitoring the building environment | 160 |
Resolving conflicts between treatment and conservation | 171 |
Analytical approach to preservative treatment | 189 |
Dry rot case studies | 197 |
Walsworth Hall Gloucestershire | 199 |
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Page 211 - A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Cure of Dry Rot in Timber; with Remarks on the Means of Preserving Wood from Destruction by Sea- Worms, Beetles, Ants, etc. By THOMAS ALLEN BRITTON, late Surveyor to the Metropolitan Board of Works, etc., etc. With 10 plates, crown 8vo, cloth, is.
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| Title | Timber Decay in Buildings: The Conservation Approach to Treatment English Heritage Guides for Practitioners Historic Scotland |
| Author | Brian Ridout |
| Contributors | English Heritage, Ingral Maxwell, John Fidler |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0419188207, 9780419188209 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Historic Preservation / General |
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