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Standards and Technical Documents
I'm slowly adding a list of the most important standards relevant to Conservation.
Chief of these is BS 7913 - Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings. All of our survey work conforms to this standard, of which I was one of the review team before it was published.
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- Brick and Stone
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- Limecrete Floors
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- Insulating an old house - Breathability!
- Sheepswool - its green, clean, and breathable
- Woodwool boards - great for infill panels
- Hemp Fibre boards - breathable roof insulation
- Kingspan insulation
- Internal insulation to old house walls
- Building Regs Review - Hackitt conflict
- Sheepwool Insulation and moth infestation
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- Maintaining your house
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- Planning and Insurance
- Equestrian
- Building materials, health and indoor air quality
- Low impact building
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- Radon gas in buildings
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Breathable Masonry Paint
The topic of Breathable Masonry Paint is probably one of the most common questions that I'm asked about. To understand it, you have to delve into the meaning of...
The Haynes Manual for Period Property
Ian Rock has written another of his great books. This one is even better - We've helped Ian with this one and there's loads of photos of our guys doing timber frame work. A great book, with lots of practical information you need if you have an old home. Treat yourself and buy this - you won't regret it!
About Us
The Heritage House brand is Petes brainchild. He lives in a beautiful old farmhouse in Shropshire He's worked all over the world on old buildings, and has a strong background in geochemistry. He is passionate about ensuring the 'Rising Damp' myth is firmly buried. Pete has an all consuming project to re-open a Victorian lead mine in the Northern Pennines - digging out and exploring miles of abandoned tunnels in the search for crystal lined cavities...
This website is for information only - it doesn't sell anything. (Except caulking kits!) If you want or need a building survey, a damp survey or advice, you need to look for Heritage House Surveys LLP, which is an enlightened group of surveyors who work all over the country and understand damp, and old buildings.
Disclaimer
Note! The opinions expressed on this website are often Pete's. They are frequently strong, unambiguous, and based on extensive experience of what goes on out there. Pete does not like to see the buying public being conned, defrauded, duped, sold a lemon, given bad or misleading advice, or crap surveys using equipment that is unsuited for the job. If you don't like what is written here - don't threaten us - clean your act up.
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Heritage House - Shropshire
Telephone: 01746 862 640 and 01746 233 108
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01904 202 556
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0203 301 2509
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