Darren McLean

You should be flattered, haha

That’s excellent!! Let us know how it goes!

A vaulted ceiling in need of repair

A moulded brick

This church uses a combination of moulded decorative bricks, and lots of plaster. The creation of the vaulting would be as per any other roof with less geometrically dramatic ceilings.

And I’m sure that’s precisely his intention.

Wow! Well done Bruno

I guess to be fair, they’re rather well paid, in order to fund the mortgage on their expensive property that their line manager refuses to give them permission to visit.

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Study hard
Get good grades
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Be a conscientious employee
Live in a tent

Oh no! The demise of the bowing alley!!

But now it's officially confirmed... by the Mail.

Excellent images!

And if the platform collapsed, the four corners of the roof would at least be saved! 🥴

1910s modern brick build houses with incongruous turreted sone Carcassonne style entrances

- What would you like?

- Formal and serious. NO! I mean Rustic!

- Chicago meets Carcassonne?

- Perfect!

Or the house was built upside-down, then flipped over once it was finished

Haha

This would appear to be the case!

A scene from a film showing the back side of a plaster and lath wall. It's a set prop and has been installed the wrong way up, so the plaster 'rivets' appear to defy gravity and point upwards

I need to have a word with the props department

🤣

I think someone’s being a little bit disingenuous here. That that’s not a normal day in London. It looks like the end of a festival or something.

A marble panel embedded in a plastered wall. The belly in the panel is visible fro them side

The lettered panel from the front.

A panel of modern, reconstituted stone applied in a hard mortar one. a brick wall.

A screw and washer installed in an effort the prevent the stone panel from detaching from the wall.

There is a phenomena where thin slabs of natural (and reconstituted) stone cladding expand as they become heated from sun and solar gain

They contract, expand, contract... repeatedly

Eventually they stop contracting. Restricted spaces (eg bedded in hard mortar) cause them to 'belly' in the centre

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Or these tiles for when red roofs are obligatory paxos.solar/sbs/

No, I did not think they were PV. When I was growing up, they called these solar panels as a very generic term because they’re panels, and they use solar energy. Yes, it’s the heat water.

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It's obviously (a lot) less efficient, so you want to argue for efficiency first. There are a god number of options out there now for most roofs.
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An narrow facade and a story building mostly in okay condition, but weathering has worn off 99% of the painted surface of the walls

String cornices on buildings are not architectural fluff.

Note on this (somewhat neglected) building how some of the old limewash still remains.

Yep. The only thing that could make it worse is if it contains asbestos which wouldn’t surprise me, in hindsight.

😂

Another example is this bookshop which used to be a butchers. The sign says “ancient butcher”. Which I think means traditional more than literally “ancient”.

Plasapellli?

A glass painted sign above the pharmacy in Italy. The sign says ancient pharmacy.

I think these were popular all over the world, but they were especially popular in Italy, and still are.

I don't remember, but @michaelburchert.bsky.social may know

Some sort of resin material in imitation of natural dark wood

A man's hand holding a piece of skirtingboard to show that it is very thin, about 6mm 1/4 inch

The world's ugliest skirtingboard / baseboard of some weird 1950s material in imitation of wood

A display of a copper roof with metal roofing and tubing beneath, as a solar water heating system

Solar panels can also be in copper to suit historic buildings