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Recognize salt attack. Understand the damaging mechanisms of terrestrial salts.  Precisely measure and evaluate salts with our unique field test kit. Effectively repair and remediate damage while preserving load-bearing structure Participate in extensive hands-on lab and field work.

This class is geared towards preservationists, professional builders, engineers and architects wanting to add adobe preservation to their services as well as non-professional owner/builders wishing to learn more about restoring an existing adobe structure. Class topics change depending on the hands-on projects that Pat integrates into each unique session but most classes include:

• Capillary action, permeability, and evaporation in adobe and masonry structures
• Salt Attack: visualizing, detecting, and measuring salt loads
• The role of sacrificial renders and other elements in migrating salts out of load-bearing structure
• Introduction to Adobe Dynamics 101
• Material identification
• Adobe making
• Adobe structural issues and practices
• Adobe Structures Assessment
• Adobe Stabilization, basal and wall
• Traditional plasters
• Earth and stone
• Wood elements
• Structural Retrofit of Historic Earthen Buildings
• Maintenance Plans
• “Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation”

Mesilla Valley Preservation, Inc.

In partnership with Pat Taylor, Inc. and Adobe in Action. Supported by a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.