Do
- Carry out regular inspection and maintenance.
- Seek advice from suitably qualified professionals.
- Repair rather than restore or replace.
- Respect the building's character and history and ensure new work is sympathetic.
- Avoid unnecessary work.
- Study the history of the building and how it has changed.
- Analyse the cause of the defects.
- Use only traditional materials and proven techniques.
- Reuse materials salvaged from your own building.
- Remedy previous bad repair
- Remove disfiguring alterations of additions.
- Adopt correct priorities for repairs.
- Use only reliable contractors or craftspeople.
- Obtain necessary planning and legal consents.
Don't
- allow serious defects to remain.
- expect independent advice from a salesman.
- repair in unsympathetic materials.
- attempt to 'improve' by altering the original appearance.
- clad walls with artificial stone or other modern materials.
- use unsuitable 'off the peg' architectural elements.
- rely on commercially based claims for any product or technique.
- use so-called 'maintenance-free' products.
- waste re-usable material
- bodge repairs.
- remove or demolish original elements.
- replace windows or doors in non-original patterns or materials.
- employ anyone without references or inspecting their work.
- do any work without the required consents.