Fraserburgh Town Centre CARS: Traditional Building Skills: Training Courses, Engagement & Events

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Education and training services

Community Engagement regarding skills associated with the historic built environment: hands-on taster sessions and traditional craft skills demonstrations for a wide audience from children to adults.

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Course to demonstrate and provide practical experience of the techniques, tools and materials (lime mortars for pointing, rendering, harling and lime washing) appropriate for traditional buildings. Particular attention to be paid to the prevailing Fraserburgh weather conditions, ashlar pointing and maintenance of granite buildings in terms of lime applicatio...

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Course aimed at building contractors based in Fraserburgh area with interest in an accreditation on lime mortars. This course should provide attendees with a strong understanding of lime technology required for assessment and accreditation of SQA National Unit 1 – ‘Preparing and Using Basic Lime Mixes’. The course should enable participants to complete point...

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Course to demonstrate and provide practical experience in repair and maintenance of traditional sash and case windows. Participants should be able to identify and address problems that commonly occur with sash windows, such as replacing ropes, weights, broken panes, and repair or replacing rotten sills. Also, to recognise the different designs/styles though...

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Course to be a mix of lecture and practical experience in repair of traditional timber shop fronts and signs. Include examples of good repair practice to talk about design considerations, signage and lettering, and appropriate interventions. Provide insight to conservation and reinstatement of the different elements that make a shop front, such as cornices,...

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Course to demonstrate and provide practical experience in the repair and maintenance of traditional roofs, including slating, looking at the under laying (insulation and waterproofing layers) and conservation of rainwater goods. Participants should be able to recognise the structure of roofs, identify different types of trusses, different external roof shape...

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Workshop to outline the basic elements of a flue and chimney system and identify common faults, their diagnosis and the principles of how to deal with them. Participants should understand the need to ventilate flues even when these are not in use anymore, and the impact that cement has when repairing chimneys.

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Workshop to outline the effect of cement use in traditional buildings and identify common faults, their diagnosis and the principles of how to deal with them. Participants should understand the need to use lime mortars and the impact of salts on natural building stone.

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Course aimed at building contractors based in Fraserburgh area with interest in an accreditation in the use of rolled lead sheet. This course should enable participants to shape and form lead sheet into complex shapes and joints without leaving tool marks, causing any significant reduction in the thickness of the metal, or compromise the weatherproofing of t...

Delivery: Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire