A rural parish church seeking to obtain heritage lottery funding to carry out repairs. The parish Architect and Structural Engineer approached H+R to determine the signicance of areas of suspected timber decay at the pre-tender stage. Work undertaken H+R worked with personnel on site to achieve pragmatic solutions to gaining access to high level timbers. Minimally destructive drilling and probing techniques were employed to determine condition of vulnerable timbers. Timbers which appeared from ground level to be sound had been structurally decayed by beetle damage. Conversely, timbers which appeared in very poor condition were often conrmed as sound with ample residual strength. Timber Decay in DroxfrodHow we solved the problem H+R gave early warning of issues on-site and expediently pro

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