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Rock-protecting temple, talus slope, Seng-ge Monastery, Kham (Sichuan Province, China)

Masonry

• Preservation Briefs 01: Assessing Cleaning and Water-Repellent Treatments for Historic Masonry Buildings. Brief on NPS site.
• Preservation Briefs 02: Repointing Mortar Joints in Historic Masonry Buildings. Brief on NPS site.
• Preservation Briefs 06: Dangers of Abrasive Cleaning to Historic Buildings. Brief on NPS site.
• Efflorescence (CBD 2), Canadian Building Digest

Skim: Log in on the Brick Institute of America site and go to the following.

• BIA Technical Notes 6, Painting Brick Masonry
• BIA Technical Notes 6A, Colorless Coatings for Brick Masonry
• BIA Technical Notes 23, Stains- Identification and Prevention, Part 1
• BIA Technical Notes 23A, Efflorescence, Causes and Mechanisms, Part 2

Addtional Resources

Hand molding sand-struck brick, Bellingdon Brick Works, Oxfordshire, England.

Building Conservation Directory

• Woolfitt, Catherine. Soluble Salts in Masonry
• Ellis, Peter. The Analysis of Mortar:The Past 20 Years
• Taylor, Jonathan. What is Lime?
• Ashurst, John. The Technology and Use of Hydraulic Lime
• O'Hare, Graham, Lime Mortars and Renders: The Relative Merits of Adding Cement
• Ellis, Peter. Gauging Lime Mortars
• Gibbons, Pat. Pozzolans for Lime Mortars