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A lot of which are natural and geological. but also, one of the lintels, for example, was stitched together in the 19505, so we're going to be doing some repair work to that, because at the time they used a mortar that was very hard and we are going to replace that with lime mortar. surveying the earlier work at the time was eight—year—old richard woodman—bailey. his father was the chief architect, and young richard concealed a coin within the stones. today, 63 years on, despite being older and wiser, he will do the same again with a £2 coin, struck specially for the occasion by the roy...

A maximum length of 50 meters through draining the canals leads to a settling of the geological layers and that can result in damage to the neighboring. so a canal can be drained or longer than 3 months. today more modern methods are also being applied in order to stabilize the walls chemicals are introduced into the lime mortar. they prevent more to getting into the bricks all these measures are carried out by hand. that is why restoration work in venice is more expensive than elsewhere. at present the city has no more than 2000000 euros a year available for preserving its buildings but the a...