After 5 decades we understand period and traditional buildings and through a vast range of experiences We know that older properties often suffer badly from modern materials being used in and on them.

When a period building was designed & constructed, it most certainly wasn't designed and constructed to be damp, cold and mouldy, but over it's long life, many people with little-to-no knowledge or understanding of period buildings will have carried out 'improvements' including using many completely incompatible materials.

Very often influenced by the wonders of marketing (Mark Eting), whose is employed by the product suppliers with the sole purpose of making those product suppliers richer.

Here's an example where even the dog made the decisions! But who couldn't resist a shaggy old English sheepdog singing a Frank Sinatra classic!

Having experienced many years where Schools try to push "johnny" into construction because "He's not very academic"; then getting to know "johnny" who's attention was maybe distracted outside of School because He clearly just wants to be a  Nickelback Rockstar:

We cover this in a bit more depth on our 'finding trades?'  Page.