Lime Based Repairs And Protection Systems For Historic Masonry - ByrneLooby International Engineering Design Consultancy

We kicked off the 1st ByrneLooby Seminar Series of 2019, with the ICON accredited Conservator and Consultant, Sally Strachey, Director at Sally Strachey Historic Conservation Ltd .

Sally is a leading consultant on historic stonework, plaster, church monuments and sculpture.  Her consultancies have been successful in securing funds for numerous recent and current high-profile contracts.

In this seminar, Sally looked at the performance of lime-based repair systems over the past forty years using case studies for:

– Construction of mortars through thirty years

– Assessing their Performance in relation to design and location

– Retreatment of 1980’s mortars

– Breif Celebration of the versatility of Lime Putty mortars