Participants at Brickendon’s cookhouse and chapel

Participants working on masonry repairs at Woolmers Estate.

Inserting fibreglass rods to stitch across cracks in brickwork

Repairs to the coping, or capping, of the Woolmers garden wall

Ray Wiltshire explaining traditional plastering practice

Gary Waller inspecting Woolmers woolshed sills

Window repair, keeping as much original fabric as possible

Participants applying linseed oil to Woolmers summer house

An absorbent poultice being used to extract salts from the brickwork

Historic metalwork in the blacksmith's shop at Woolmers

Participants working on masonry repairs at Woolmers Estate.

Repointing after insertion of fibreglass rods

Repairing cracked brickwork

Repairing the Woolmers garden wall

Repointing mortar joints with lime mortar

Ray demonstrating harling

Removal of harling reveals cracking in brickwork

Lime putty should have a feta-like consistency

Bench top demonstration of slaking quicklime

Repointing joints between stones in lime mortar

Historic outbuildings

Lath and plaster practice "wall"

Mortar repairs

Christian Lund demonstrating paint stripping