10 unusual stone structures
For the second in our less than serious summer series of blogs on different building substrates, we have decided to go with #stone: allowing us to compile another top 10 of buildings, structures and...
View Article10 ceramic structures – food for thought
After the wood and stone utilised by our ancestors, examined in the first two blogs of this series, comes ceramics; mainly in the form of bricks, being widely used in this country, and the tiles...
View Article10 significant metal structures
As the subject for this week’s materials blog from your favourite repair specialist we have chosen metal: primarily steel, with an honourable mention for cast iron, which means we can reflect on some...
View Article10 glass ‘Marmite’ buildings
We move on to the fifth blog of this light-hearted series on different types of buildings and structures, this time round looking at glass as our chosen material; and one which despite its frailties is...
View Article10 plastic structures – Having the bottle to build
We take a look at plastic as a construction material. An unusual piece of art by Bruce Munro has turned a Wiltshire hill into a giant breast, which will light up at night to raise awareness of cancer....
View ArticleChristmas a peak time for damage
Boxing Day for many people involves sporting events and other activities they hope will help them get over the feeling of being bloated or jaded from the excesses of the Christmas dinner; though for...
View Article10 things you didn’t know about brick
1. While most modern dwellings are built out of standard size bricks (coordinating at 225 x 75 mm including 10 mm joints) a visit to one of our historic buildings, such as Hampton Court Palace, will...
View Article10 things you never knew about stone
1. Scientists believe the oldest rock specimen on earth is a zircon crystal found near Perth, Australia, which has been dated to 4.4billion years ago. Earth itself is thought to be hundreds of millions...
View Article10 things you didn’t know about uPVC
1. uPVC or unplasticized PVC was renamed PVCu (you may also see it as PVC-U) in the late 1980s to fall in line with Europe. It is called PVCu there because most European languages place the noun (the...
View ArticleRecord landfill waste savings
Plastic Surgeon has analysed its company statistics for 2016, revealing that across more than half a million repair jobs carried out in the year, the firm saved 2,974 tonnes of waste product from...
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