Projecting Bays: Enhancing Architectural Design There are a handful of different common architectural building styles in the historic parts of Washington DC. One of the common styles or some of the details added to a variety of different styles of historic row homes, here in… Read More »Decorative Elements at Projecting Bays
Benefits of Faux Painted Masonry Over the past few weeks, instead of looking at the typical types of historical brick masonry deterioration and restoration that we often see here in Capitol Hill which drastically need repointing and refurbishment, we’ve been looking at some very visually… Read More »Faux Painted Masonry on Masonry – Part IV
Advanced Faux Painted Masonry Techniques This past week, we looked at a particular masonry building where the mortar joints of the bricks had been painted the same color as the rest of the building but then painted again to appear to be white so that… Read More »Faux Painted Masonry on Masonry – Part II
Faux Painted Masonry Techniques This past week, we took a look at gunnite as a type of soil stabilization, which is really similar to a retaining wall, in some ways, just much larger and built in a different type of shape and form. We mentioned… Read More »Faux Painted Masonry on Masonry
Effective Soil Stabilization for Stronger Foundations Recently, we got an opportunity to look at a couple particular projects using gunnite as a method of soil stabilization. You can basically think of gunite as concrete that’s applied by spray. Spraying concrete requires an incredibly heavy and… Read More »Gunnite and Soil Stabilization
Choosing the Right Hard Mortar One of the recurring themes of the information that we provide to our customers here on our website is that they should avoid using hard mortar with soft bricks. We don’t always express it in such direct terms, but it… Read More »Hard Mortar with Soft Bricks
Key Insights Into Eye and Oculus Openings in Historic Masonry Here in the blog section of our website, this past week, we looked at several examples of bullseye and oculus openings in historic masonry. Today, for this week’s blog article here on our website, we’re… Read More »Bullseye and Oculus openings in Historic Masonry – Part II
Crafting Bullseye and Oculus Openings In the past, here on pur blog, we’ve looked at a variety of different types of opening supports and headers in masonry walls and facades used to create openings. In many cases these openings are used for doors and windows,… Read More »Bullseye and Oculus openings in Historic Masonry – Part I
Historic Masonry Headers: Key to Structural Stability This past week, we took a look at several different types of common historic Masonry headers. The majority of historic masonry headers here in Washington DC or segmented arches which are partially self-supporting but also often have an… Read More »Historic Masonry Headers and Structural Failure
Facing Wall Techniques: Mastering Blind Side Wall Aesthetics The recent past, we looked at another building with very rough looking brickwork where the brick had initially been built at a blind side where the current exterior of the brick was not accessible during the initial… Read More »Hiding a Blind Side Facing Wall