We kicked off the 1st ByrneLooby Seminar Series of 2019, with the ICON accredited Conservator and Consultant, Sally Strachey, Director at Sally Strachey Historic Conservation Ltd .
Sally is a leading consultant on historic stonework, plaster, church monuments and sculpture. Her consultancies have been successful in securing funds for numerous recent and current high-profile contracts.
In this seminar, Sally looked at the performance of lime-based repair systems over the past forty years using case studies for:
– Construction of mortars through thirty years
– Assessing their Performance in relation to design and location
– Retreatment of 1980’s mortars
– Breif Celebration of the versatility of Lime Putty mortars