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Mr R.C. Willes, a chartered building surveyor with Willes Simpson Woods,
was appointed by the Clients, 'Warfield Establishments', as project manager and
contract administrator in respect of the external restoration works. In this capac-
ity he appointed Gerard Lynch as Historical Brickwork Consultant, who subse-
quently reported on the condition of the brick fabric and specified the scope of
remedial works. Further to his report and specification, the client retained him
as 'Clerk of Works' to give on-going advice and supervise the repairs and restora-
tion. 'Holloway White Allom Limited', were appointed as the main contractor,
and, my company, 'DGD Builders' were sub-contracted to undertake all of the
repairs and restoration of the external brickwork, including all the gauged work.
I have been contracting in building for over 20 years, and learned about
the knowledge and skills of gauged work and its repair from Gerard Lynch by
attending his courses at the 'Weald and Downland Open Air Museum' in Sussex,
and through private tuition at his workshop. In the years that have followed, I
have successfully specialised in repairing historic brickwork from all periods,
using traditional materials and craft techniques. In all of these contracts I always
take an active lead role on-site. Having also been trained in aspects of bench-
joinery I make all the templets, cutting boxes, profiles and templates necessary
to undertake such works, at my fully-equipped workshops in Leighton Buzzard,
Bedfordshire. As part of the full service I try to provide the customer, some of my
team and myself have been fully trained in the correct use of the Jos
®
and Doff
®
masonry cleaning systems purchased from Stonehealth Limited.
The overall remedial work to the brickwork involved:
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Cleaning of masonry - using a combination of Jos
®
and Doff
®
systems.
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Recording, dismantling and rebuilding chimneys.
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Dismantling and re-building parapet walls and renewal of failed limestone
copings.
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Recording, dismantling of isolated areas of fractured brickwork and bowed
outer-leaf facework due to Georgian 'facadism'.
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Recording and dismantling of failed central area of east elevation and
re-build re-introducing gauged features removed during previous
inappropriate remedial works.
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General remedial works to gauged work including re-pointing.
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Wholesale re-stabilising of the sand blasted brickwork and re-pointing.
Germane to this case study were the remedial works to the gauged brickwork.
These works can be sub-divided as follows:
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Recording, dismantling of flat arches and re-building
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Recording, dismantling of flat 'circle-on-circle' arches to semi-circular bay
and re-building
