Restoring Your Historic Home
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accommodate up to date life in a historic home.
This e-book doesn’t repeat fundamental data that’s available in lots of normal DIY books about carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Reasonably, it exhibits how one can adapt these DIY abilities to the specialised wants of a historic home.
Though there are different books about renovating previous homes, that is the primary that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining options of a home as a place to begin within the course of. That’s the objective of this e-book: to explain and illustrate a best-practices strategy for updating historic houses for contemporary life in methods that don’t try to show an previous home into a brand new one. The e-book additionally suggests some ways to economize within the course of, with out settling for reasonable or inappropriate options.
Scott Hanson is a historic-building preservation skilled and has 40 years’ expertise rehabilitating historic homes. He has illustrated this authoritative e-book with a whole lot of step-by-step pictures, illustrations, charts, and decision-making guides. Interspersed all through are photograph essays of 13 restored historic homes representing a spread of durations and architectural types: Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, Federal, Colonial, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Ranch, Adobe, Craftsman, Shingle, and Rustic. With inside and exterior images by David Clough, these multi-page options present what will be achieved when a historic house is renovated with a want to protect or restore as a lot historic character as doable.
Earlier than and After B&W and Coloration Images All through
From the Writer
HISTORICAL HOMES – FULL RENOVATION
ORIGINAL PHOTO
DETERIORATED
RESTORED
Scott Hanson is a historic-building preservation skilled and has 40 years’ expertise rehabilitating historic homes.
He has illustrated this authoritative e-book with a whole lot of step-by-step pictures, illustrations, charts, and decision-making guides. Interspersed all through are photograph essays of 13 restored historic homes representing a spread of durations and architectural types: Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, Federal, Colonial, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Ranch, Adobe, Craftsman, Shingle, and Rustic.
With inside and exterior images by David Clough, these multi-page options present what will be achieved when a historic house is renovated with a want to protect or restore as a lot historic character as doable.
PART ONE: Mission Planning
Chapter 1: Discovering the Proper Historic Home
Chapter 2: Character defining Options of a Historic Home
Chapter 3: Mission Design
Chapter 4: Do-It-Your self ?
Chapter 5: Bureaucrats You may Meet
PART TWO: Below the Floor
Chapter 6: The Demolition Section
Chapter 7: Structural Considerations
PART THREE: Techniques
Chapter 8: Heating & Cooling
Chapter 9: Insulation & Air flow
Chapter 10: Plumbing & Electrical
PART FOUR: The Exterior Envelope
Chapter 11: Roofs
Chapter 12: Exterior Partitions
Chapter 13: Exterior Trim & Home windows
PART FIVE: Inside FInishes
Chapter 14: Flooring
Chapter 15: Inside Partitions
Chapter 16: Ceilings
Chapter 17: Inside Trim
Chapter 18: Inside Paint & paper
PART SIX: Instruments & Sources
Chapter 19: Instruments
Chapter 20: Sources
Writer : Tilbury Home Publishers; Illustrated version (December 10, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 720 pages
ISBN-10 : 0884484904
ISBN-13 : 978-0884484905
Merchandise Weight : 5.36 kilos
Dimensions : 9.4 x 1.7 x 10.4 inches
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