Como Approach Workshops

Join us in a private joinery business for a workshop that will cover an introduction to working with timber and the construction, assembly and repair of traditional doors. As this event is mostly lecture based, no prior skills are required to attend. However, those with carpentry experience who would like to understand more about how to work on traditional doors will find this workshop particularly rewarding.  

The session will end with a Q and A with the instructor, Ian Goddard, who has over 35 years’ experience in joinery and cabinet making in both in Australia and the United Kingdom where he originally trained. All participants receive digital certificates of completion at the conclusion of the workshop. 

Tickets: $100 per person, $80 for NTV Members.

Ray Wiltshire is a highly knowledgeable and skilled Heritage Plasterer with many years experience in the industry. He is also a regular trainer at the Longford Academy in Tasmania. 

During this session at Barwon Grange participants will gain: 

• Awareness of the Health and Safety issues involved in the pointing works  
• Familiarity with lime, sand and aggregate selection processes  
• Practical awareness of materials preparation and use including tool handling  
• Conservation philosophy as to the extent of pointing intervention  

This workshop will be hands-on, allowing participants to repoint a section of wall at Barwon Grange. All participants with receive digital certificates of completion at the conclusion of the workshop. 

Tickets: $100 per person, $80 for NTV Members.

Led by Bruce Hutton, this workshop covered a history of glass and glazing, installation, decoration, maintenance and repair and also the application of linseed oil putty. The workshop also included a short house tour of Waller House.

Bruce Hutton founded Almond glass in 1994. He completed a Fine Arts Degree (Chisholm Institute of Technology) majoring in stained glass in 1988, he then went on to work in the industry both in Australia, England and South Africa. He completed a Postgraduate (Monash University) in 1996, focusing on the conservation and restoration techniques of stained glass.

Outcomes included familiarity with lime, sand and aggregate selection processes, practical awareness of materials preparation and use including tool handling and heritage philosophy as to the extent of pointing intervention

This workshop covered an introduction to working with timber, a brief history of the sash window and an overview of the construction, installation and repair of sash windows. The session will ended with a Q and A with the instructor, Ian Goddard, who is a joiner with many years' experience both in Australia and the United Kingdom where he did his training.

This practical hands on workshop was focused on performing repointing and masonry repair to the east wall of the original coach house at Como House in South Yarra.