Saturday 21 June 2008

Monitoring the Cracks

Duck down the side of the Abbey in Preuilly, and there are some very interesting architectural details to be seen.

This weathered archway has a crack which must have caused enough concern to result in the application of a gauge to measure the movement. Happily, it appears that the crack has been stable - at least since 2003, anyway.


Susan

For those interested after Thursday's post; EDF have actually refunded a fair portion of our payments for electricity. I guess now I will have to update our meter reading online after every trip to Preuilly.
Simon

Simon

2 comments:

wcs said...

What a great idea - I could use a few of those gauges around my house!

Susan said...

Walt - they are widely used in heritage conservation. The website for the company who made this one is http://www.jauges-saugnac.fr/
Susan

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