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Chapter-1 Maintenance

The document discusses maintenance of historic structures. It defines maintenance as routine work to keep a place in good order and limit deterioration. Effective maintenance involves regular inspections and prompt action to address issues. Maintenance is cost-effective as it protects the value of a building by spending on routine care and minor repairs. Good maintenance also helps ensure safety. While seen as mundane, maintenance is key to preserving historic buildings, which often use natural, handcrafted materials that differ from modern construction materials and require different maintenance procedures.

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Chapter-1 Maintenance

The document discusses maintenance of historic structures. It defines maintenance as routine work to keep a place in good order and limit deterioration. Effective maintenance involves regular inspections and prompt action to address issues. Maintenance is cost-effective as it protects the value of a building by spending on routine care and minor repairs. Good maintenance also helps ensure safety. While seen as mundane, maintenance is key to preserving historic buildings, which often use natural, handcrafted materials that differ from modern construction materials and require different maintenance procedures.

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Chapter- 1

Maintenance

1.1 Introduction

Maintenance can be defined as routine work necessary to keep the fabric of a place in
good order. The objective of maintenance is to limit deterioration. Inspections carried out at
regular intervals, coupled with promote action to pre-empt or remedy problems, are the basis
of effective maintenance.

Maintenance is cost effective, the time and money spent on routine care, regular surveys
and minor repairs protect the value of the building. Good maintenance also helps to ensure the
health and safety of building users and the general public. Although it is often seen as
mundane, maintenance forms a cornerstone of building conservation.

Historic structures are usually made of materials that are natural, hand-crafted and were not
the product of a manufacturer. Many of these same materials (woods, stone, brick, metal, etc.)
are used in construction today, however, they may be of a different quality durability or process
of manufacture and the procedures for maintenance and repair can be quite different. For
example, eighteen century hand-made brick. Products, techniques and schedules that are
developed or recommended by manufactures of modern materials on historic structures.

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