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INFORM Guide: Tenement Maintenance

This INFORM guide provides information about the maintenance and management of repairs in a shared building.

Inform Guide: Biological growth on masonry

This INFORM guide provides an overview of the types of biological growths that are commonly found on Scottish building and historic structures, and gives advice on their monitoring and management.

Inform Guide: Bird Control in Historic Buildings

This INFORM guide document examines measures that can be taken to minimise the threat birds pose to our built heritage environment and the ways in which they can be controlled.

Inform Guide: Bituminous Sheet Flat Roofs

This INFORM guide first gives a description of the structure of a flat roof. The signs of common problems are then listed before looking at ways to repair roofs and eradicate such problems.

Inform Guide: Boundary Ironwork

Many building owners are choosing to re-instate boundary ironwork which has fallen into disrepair or was perhaps removed for the war effort. This INFORM guide provides relevant advice.

Inform Guide: Bronze

This technical, advice & guidance INFORM guide, "Bronze", is an introduction to bronze, with guidance on its problems and planning appropriate maintenance work. Read the document today.

Inform Guide: Care and Maintenance of Corrugated Iron

This INFORM guide provides some historical background to the use of corrugated iron and outlines the various issues relating to the conservation, repair and maintenance of the material.

Inform Guide: Ceramic Tiled Flooring

This INFORM guide provides guidance on ceramic floor tiles. The various types and layouts of tiles are considered such as geometric tiles, encaustic tiles and quarry tiles.

Inform Guide: Citizen Science

This Inform Guide provides information about how to engage volunteers in scientific research.

Inform Guide: Clay Mortars for Masonry Buildings

This guide, "Clay Mortars for Masonry Buildings", explains how clay and clay-rich earth have traditionally been used in Scotland to make mortars for masonry wall construction and surface finishing.

Inform Guide: Cleaning Sandstone - Risks and Consequences

An INFORM guide to the risks and consequences of cleaning sandstone masonry.

Inform Guide: Condensation

This INFORM guide gives information about the causes and solutions of condensation in buildings.

Inform Guide: Damp Gables

This INFORM guide outlines the symptoms, likely causes, and repair options of damp gables.

Inform Guide: Damp: Causes and Solutions

"Damp: Causes and Solutions" is an INFORM guide that helps the reader to recognise the causes and early signs of damp as well as offering guidance on rectifying damp problems.

Inform Guide: Decorative Paint Finishes: Graining and Marbling

"Decorative Paint Finishes: Graining and Marbling" is an INFORM guide that aims to assist in identifying, protecting and reinstating historic grained or marbled finishes.