Elevate Your Skills With Craftwork Training Center Workshops
Elevate your skill with one of the Craftwork Training Center’s excellent and informative workshops, featuring hands-on instruction and know-how from the LimeWorks®.us team . Here’s a look at what’s coming up soon:
Friday, April 24th, at the Craftwork Training Center:
Learn tips and tricks from professionals on how to remove deteriorated mortar joints and properly restore them with quality workmanship and materials so your restoration stands the test of time!
The decision to repoint a masonry structure is most often related to some obvious signs of deterioration, such as disintegrating mortar, cracks in mortar joints, loose bricks or stones, or damp walls. On the surface, restoration projects may appear straightforward and intuitive, but there’s no substitute for skill and experience. Good repointing practices guarantee the long life of the mortar joint, the wall, and the historic structure. This hands-on workshop introduces the basic principles and work practices needed to repoint vintage brick and/or stone structures using breathable lime mortar supplied by LimeWorks.us. The lecture, demonstrations and hands-on exercises cover the properties of natural hydraulic lime mortars; tips for selecting and mixing lime mortars; and cleaning, filling, repointing, and tooling certain mortar joints. Under the guidance of experienced masons from LimeWorks.us, participants will practice their skills on mock-up panels or historic structures undergoing restoration at our facility. Prior masonry experience is not required.
Learning Objectives:
- Begin to understand the science behind breathable natural hydraulic lime.
- Become aware of proper wall preparation techniques used to remove existing mortar that will create less damage to the surrounding stone and brick
- Review how to mix, place, and cure lime mortar properly.
- Recognize common pointing styles.
- Begin to understand how to fill, repoint, tool, texture, and brush mortar joints to simulate simple pointing profiles.
Bookings are limited so REGISTER today!
Friday, May 15th, at the Craftwork Training Center:
Plaster Level 2
MAS-10 builds off the skills introduced in MAS-04: Basics of Plaster Wall Repair. In this course, participants will work with the skilled and experienced LimeWorks.us Technical Install Team to learn how to make traditional three-coat plaster systems over lath using hydraulic lime-based Ecologic™ Plaster TOPCOAT™ Platinum in various grades. By the end of the one-day workshop, participants should have a better understanding of how lime plaster functions in a traditional three-coat lath system, and how to construct and prepare each layer of plaster on a wall.
Bookings are limited so REGISTER today!
Friday, May 22nd, at the Craftwork Training Center:
Stone Grave Marker Cleaning and Repair
An overview of proper preservation and stabilization techniques for stone grave markers, with safe methods for cleaning, patching, and repairing delicate materials.
Our preservation practices attempt to keep gravestones and monuments from deteriorating further; respect the significance of original materials and details; and stabilize, repair, and retain features wherever possible to ensure their safekeeping for future generations. To understand basic preservation and stabilization measures, participants will be introduced to the LimeWorks.us Graveyard Kit and practice working with a combination of the products.
Featuring Hands-on exercises, a lecture and demonstrations reviewing the steps to repair small, broken stone elements, using waterglass to consolidate friable (crumbly or deteriorating) masonry, and choosing the appropriate products and techniques to patch, repair and clean sensitive stones effectively without causing damage.
Spots are limited for our May 22 workshop so REGISTER today! Be part of preserving what can’t be replaced!
