Moving of Old Houses

Back text: Building preservation in practice is a series of a total of four books, published in collaboration with the Center for Building Preservation in Gysinge. The author is Göran Gudmundsson. In the first practical book for the building preserver, the construction of wooden houses, foundations, frames, and surface layers is described in detail, as well as the extensive work involved in moving an old house, which includes documentation, research into the house's history, marking, demolition, and reconstruction. Invaluable knowledge for those working with old wooden houses. In the second book in the series, questions about heating and insulation of old houses are answered, what consequences it has for the buildings, and what solutions are recommended. The house's fireplaces and heat sources, their history, and renovation aspects are described in detail. Here is everything worth knowing about open fireplaces, tiled stoves, pipe stoves, stoves, and iron stoves. Invaluable knowledge about heating older buildings. The third book in the series Building Preservation in Practice tells about all the steps involved in an exterior renovation, and the fourth book describes in detail and thoroughly an interior renovation.