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Originally Posted by john.wigley
You would think so, wouldn't you, Thomas. Another example for you:
Our church tower roof needed replacing last year as it was leaking like a sieve and as a result the timber beams supporting it had rotted (they had been there for circa 400 years). It was made of lead, is 90 feet up (inaccessible without scaffolding) and only visible from above.
Despite more modern materials being available that are lighter, stronger and much cheaper, we had no choice but to replace it like for like in order to comply with church rules and listed building status.
Regards, John.
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Lime mortor on a boundary wall rather than simple cement mortor was insisted on by our church council when some toe rag drove into it demolishing part thereof.
Limited tradesmen able to use lime motor, travel 60 miles to brecon in order to aquire the materials and wait around for suitable weather before repair could be effected.
Had we been able to use cement 2 or 3 of the members would of repaired it over a weekend as volunteers, instead the bill was £1200..
Paul.