ARCHITECTURALTILES

Architectural tiles and ceramics vary significantly in their manufacture and response to different agents of deterioration.

Calibre specialises in the conservation of mosaic (stone, ceramic, glass), floor and wall tiles (medieval, Delft and industrial). These include moulded and sized tiles forming dado rails, skirting, corner mouldings, pilasters, friezes, entablatures and panels.
 

Non-structural repair:

  • Desalination (dry removal, poulticing)
  • Treatment or removal of microbiological growth
  • Dry (mechanical), wet (aqueous and chemical) and laser cleaning 
  • Consolidation (protective mortar borders, resetting tiles or tesserae, grouting voids in the substrate)
  • Filling and glaze repairs (fissures or fractures, surface losses)
  • Repointing tiles
     

Structural repair:

  • Lifting and relaying tiles and tesserae 
  • Reinforcing floors and arches
  • Repairing foundations (bedding mortar)
  • Replacing deteriorated metalwork or removing corrosion layers (dry mechanical methods)
  • Replacing carbonated concrete 
  • Damp-proofing
  • Repairing fractured tiles 
  • Replacing tiles and tesserae (including unglazed, inlaid, stamped, incised, cut and inlaid, glazed, geometric, slip painted, sgraffito, embossed, underglaze hand painted, printed, tube lined, and lustre ware)
  • Relocating tile schemes