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Maintaining Your Home

Short Guide: Maintaining Your Home

Short Guide 9

Maintenance advice for homeowners and those responsible for the maintenance of traditional buildings.

Scottish Traditional Shopfronts

Short Guide: Scottish Traditional Shopfronts

Short Guide 12

Information on traditional shopfronts, and their relationships with towns and cities.

Sash and Case Windows

Short Guide: Sash and Case Windows

A short guide for homeowners

Information regarding the maintenance and repair of sash and case windows.

Traditional Scottish Brickwork

Short Guide: Traditional Scottish Brickwork

Short Guide 7

An introduction to the maintenance of traditional Scottish brick structures.

Thermal Imaging in the Historic Environment

Short Guide: Thermal Imaging in the Historic Environment

Short Guide 10

This guide explains what thermography is.

A sketch of a wall traditional building with a large door with decorative architrave and a fire exit sign above the door

Short Guide 14: Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders

A guide to complying with fire safety legislation in the context of historic and traditional buildings.

Micro-Renewables in the Historic Environment

Short Guide: Micro-Renewables in the Historic Environment

Short Guide 8

Information on the use of micro-renewables in the historic environment.

Climate Change Adaptation for Traditional Buildings

Short Guide: Climate Change Adaptation for Traditional Buildings

Short Guide 11

The key aspects of the exterior of a traditional building and considers how these can be improved or adapted to increase a building’s resilience to extreme weather events caused by climate change.

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Short Guide: Applied Digital Documentation in the Historic Environment

Short Guide 13

Discover how a broad range of data capture techniques can be applied to the recording, analysis, conservation and visualisation of the historic environment.