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Copper, new and aged. Unedited photos, so you see the metal as it really looks.

Bright copper turns brown and then green. Used on roofs, gutters and cladding, but the green runoff stains stone and attacks zinc.

Full story on the blog, link in bio.

Have you ever seen copper runoff stain a facade? Tell us in the comments.

#copper #facaderestoration #heritagecraft #sheetmetal #restorefacade by @restorefacade

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2 days ago

Adolfo Armas Luján · Founding Member #14 · labrArte by @restorefacade

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5 days ago

Lead, copper, zinc, tin, aluminium: same job on the facade, five very different ways of growing old. The swatches show new to aged, so you know what to expect before the patina shows up.

Full story on the blog, link in bio.

Which one do you meet most often on the facades around you?

#facaderestoration #heritagecraft #sheetmetal #zinc #restorefacade by @restorefacade

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8 days ago

Lead, new and aged. Unedited photos, so you see the metal as it really looks.

It’s heavy, and it creeps and cracks if the sheets are cut too long. Used on roofs, flashings and ornaments.

Full story on the blog, link in bio.

Have you worked with lead on a facade or roof? Tell us in the comments.

#lead #facaderestoration #heritagecraft #sheetmetal #restorefacade by @restorefacade

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9 days ago

Jonatan Díaz · Founding Member #13 · Vitromar by @restorefacade

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12 days ago

Every front step has a story in iron. This one is a décrottoir, a boot scraper, signed by the Corneau foundry in Charleville.

And those flower rosettes you see on steel I-beam fronts across Flanders? Pretty, but a serious weak link. A bolt dressed up as a flower.

More on restorefacade.com (link in bio).

#castiron #bootscraper #heritagecraft #facaderestoration #restorefacade by @restorefacade

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14 days ago

Part 5, the final one in the facade materials series: how to actually restore this stuff.

Ceramic tile, glazed brick, mosaic, and painted glass fail for different reasons and get repaired with different techniques, but the sequence that gets you a repair that lasts is the same across all four: stabilise whatever’s structurally holding the surface, document the original before anything moves, clean before you diagnose (grime lies), match material behaviour rather than just colour, and treat removal as a last resort rather than a first step.

Skip the order and you can do technically correct work on the wrong problem.

That wraps the materials series, glazed brick, mosaic, and painted glass are all up on the blog, link in bio.

#restorefacadeguild #heritagerestoration #facaderestoration #buildingconservation #artnouveau by @restorefacade

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16 days ago

Miquel Ramis · Founding Member #12 · Artifex Balear #stonemason #balear #árboles #artifexbalear by @restorefacade

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19 days ago

Part 4 of the facade materials series: painted glass.

Under a century of grime, a panel like this can look close to a lost cause. It usually isn’t. Enamel colours and gold leaf were fired or fixed directly onto the glass, and glass itself is one of the most stable materials on a facade, it doesn’t rot, rust, or really age the way everything around it does.

What actually fails is what’s holding it in place: the putty drying out, the timber frame rotting, paint on the surrounding woodwork cracking and letting water in behind the pane. Clean the grime off carefully and the original colour is very often still there, exactly as it was painted.

Full piece on the blog, link in bio.

#paintedglass #restorefacadeguild #heritagerestoration #artnouveau #facaderestoration by @restorefacade

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20 days ago

Jérôme Clochard · Founding Member #11 · Absolut Mosaïque by @restorefacade

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Part 3 of the facade materials series: mosaic.

A mosaic panel like this is made of hundreds or thousands of small ceramic or glass tesserae, each one individually set into a bed of mortar or cement. Look closely and you’ll almost never find a single tessera has failed on its own, they’re small, glazed, and tough. What actually fails is the substrate behind them: once the bedding mortar loses adhesion or the wall behind it moves, whole sections let go together instead of piece by piece.

That’s also why mosaic repair is rarely about matching individual tiles. It’s about stabilising what’s underneath first.

Full piece on the blog, link in bio.

#mosaic #restorefacadeguild #heritagerestoration #artnouveau #facaderestoration by @restorefacade

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Part 1 of the facade materials series: glazed brick.

That colour band isn’t paint, and it isn’t going to peel like paint does. The glaze is fused onto the brick face in the kiln, the same way it’s done on tile and pottery, which is why these bands are usually the best-preserved part of a facade that’s otherwise seen a hundred years of repainting, pollution, and weather. When a glazed brick does fail, it’s almost always through a crack in the glaze letting water into the body of the brick behind it, not through simple fading.

Full piece on the blog, link in bio.

#glazedbrick #restorefacadeguild #heritagerestoration #artnouveau #facaderestoration by @restorefacade

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