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Stonemasonry

Stonemasonry Restoration

Stone Carving

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Conservation
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Stone and Garden

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Fairhaven Garden Trust

Stone conservation

Monitoring & Analysis

• Continuous data logging of internal/external ambient conditions and surface temparatures for dew point assessment
• Liquid moisture profiles in walls, surface temparature probes
• UVL examination of wall surfaces
• Michrochemical identification of a range of minerall salts causing disruption
• Quantitative assessment of salt species
• Fluorescent microscopy for paint layer and mediae identification
• Polarised microscopy for pigments, wood, hair, lime mortar, plasters and stone identification
• Metallurgical microscopy for metals/corrosion analysis
• Microphotography
• Thin layer chromatography for modium analysis
• Spot-testing for metals, minerals, organics, proteins etc
• Collaboration with research labs in XRD, SEM, EDX

Fluorescence

Microscopy using a range of fluorchrome and immunofluorescence staining techniques to locate a range of binding mediae in paint layers

Upon diverse objects we carry out a range of gilding methods and traditional painting techniques such as egg tempera retouching, marbling and graining, heraldic devices, linseed/walnut oil methods.

Our paints are hand made using finest pigments available and following the analysis of pigments we try to replicate as near as possible to original methodologies.
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