Moving Old Houses

Back text: Building maintenance in practice is a series of a total of four books, published in collaboration with the Center for building maintenance in Gysinge. Author is Göran Gudmundsson. The first practical book for the building caretaker describes in detail the wooden house's construction, foundation, frame and surface, as well as the major work of moving an old house, which includes documentation, research into the house's history, marking, demolition and reconstruction. Invaluable knowledge for those who work with old wooden houses. In the second book in the series, questions about heating and insulation of old houses are answered, what consequences this has for the buildings and which 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 fireplaces, tiled stoves, pipe stoves, stoves and iron stoves. Invaluable knowledge of heating older buildings. The third book in the series Building maintenance in practice tells about all the steps involved in an exterior renovation, and the fourth book describes an interior renovation in detail.