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Increasingly rare mud earth ceiling

The use of earth mortars was once common but is now increasingly rare to find. The use of mud earth for ceilings is now very rare indeed.
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Lime swirls in Australia

My travels around the world have now found the lime swirls in Australia. This time they were seen on a wall at the Roundhouse in Fremantle.
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Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar

One of the most impressive brick structures ever built.
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Agreed Methodology for Moisture Investigations in Traditional Buildings

The 'Agreed Methodology' is an initiative from RICS, Historic England and PCA that seeks to reform the inspection and reporting of moisture related issues in traditional buildings and to raise professional standards and consumer confidence.
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Bitumen paint on slate roofs

From the 1950's through to the 1980's painting poor quality slate roofs with bitumen was done as a cheap way of trying to stop them leaking
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More observations of the lime swirls

I saw these lime swirls in Ticehurst and Eastleigh. They are correctly called the Ostwald’s-Liesegang space supersaturation-nucleation-depletion cycle
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