Subject

Degraded Mortar

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Disintegrated Deturk kitchen wall foundation

Photos 1001.01.155

Disintegrated cellar wall foundation

DeTurk · 07/29/2009

Detail of DTR09PH70--1001.01.154, showing displaced foundation stones under kitchen window. The primary structural problem in this small building, dramatically evident in the sandy-mud mortar-residue visible in the lower-right quadrant of this photo, was the debilitating long term effects from saturation of mortar and the consequent dissolution of much of

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Interior view of DeTurk kitchen window before restoration (2009)

Photos 1001.01.092

Pre-restoration interior Kitchen window

DeTurk · 05/09/2009

Interior view of the kitchen window in the east eaves wall of the DeTurk ground-level kitchen. The interior oak sill has deformed due to deflection and lateral movement in the masonry wall and timber framing, as discussed in DT0R9PH71--1001.01.155. The degraded mortar and distended masonry pier and wall segments under and to the right [south] of the windo

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