Historic Floors, Tiles and Terracotta: Conservation, Repair and Cleaning

A Victorian entrance hall with an original encaustic and geometric tiled floor, a stained glass front door and a painted staircase.

A conservation guide to the floors of historic buildings: timber boards, stone flags, brick and pamments, encaustic and geometric tiles, terracotta and lime floors. It covers how they were built, why they fail, how to clean and repair them, and how to avoid the common mistakes that destroy them. Building Restoration Index — Technical Library. […]