Learn the trowel trade secrets that make repairs disappear! Gain the confidence to understand what you are looking at when it comes to building decay. Know how to specify the most appropriate materials for concrete and stucco restoration projects.

Use a lime mortar as a poultice to draw out salts from within a historic masonry wall, work with special aggregates made from marbles, limestone and brick dust. Practice advance techniques in bead and ribbon joint profiles with special hand-made tools using hydraulic lime, lime putty and cements. Traditional lath & stucco & historic cast stone repair techniques demonstrated and explained.

Mortar Matching Mistakes - Causes and Solutions
Brick Dust Mortars and Special Aggregates
Stucco: Exposed-Aggregate and Special Finishes
How to Match Historic Concrete
Cast Stone Finishes and Textures
How to Perform a Mortar Analysis
Efflorescence-Removing & Neutralizing
Hydraulic Lime, Natural Cement, Portland Cement
The Problems with Lime Putty Mortar

The Achievement Certificates and the AIA/CES Completion Certificates will be distributed to attendees at the conclusion of the workshop. Workshop participants are included for project referrals on the U.S. Heritage Group website.

For special architectural rates and group discounts, please call Bruce Petersen at 773-414-5486.

Prerequisites: Participants will need to have completed the Repointing & Rebuilding with Traditional Lime Mortar workshop or other similar workshop program.

Credits: AIA/CES (7) HSW Learning Units

Price: $325.00