Furnace puff back

Alicia Bjornson <ambjornson [at] mac__com> writes

>My colleague, Sue Shutte at Ringwood Manor (Sloatsburg Road,
>Ringwood, NJ 07456 ) needs help. The site needs clean up assistance
>after a furnace puff back has coated the historic
>collections--paintings, furniture, carpeting, books, paper,
>costumes, as well as walls and crown moulding on the whole first
>floor. ...

There are two very good papers (Parts 1 and 2) on the effects of a
fire where soot was deposited throughout the Royal Saskatchewan
Museum:

    Sarah Spafford-Ricci, Fiona Graham (2000)
    JAIC, vol. 39, no. 1,
        The Fire at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Part 1: Salvage,
        Initial Response, and the Implications for Disaster Planning
        <URL:http://cool.conservation-us.org/jaic/articles/jaic39-01-002.html>
    and
        The Fire at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Part 2: Removal of
        Soot from Artifacts and Recovery of the Building
        <URL:http://cool.conservation-us.org/jaic/articles/jaic39-01-003.html>

Ms Allyson Rae
ACR, BA, Cons Cert
Freelance Conservator
Peacehaven
Long Stratton Road
Forncett St Peter
Norwich NR16 1HT
+44 1953 788544
+44 7854 483 281


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