Workshop Series — Help for your Older Home
Heritage Ottawa is developing a series of essential workshops for owners and prospective owners of older homes. Offered either in-person or online, the workshops cover a range of topics presented by professionals in their fields to help you care for your historic property.
Our Heritage Ottawa Workshop Series aims to empower homeowners to confidently make repair and maintenance decisions through the practical advice and guidance of recognized experts.
UPCOMING WORKSHOP:
Doing the Groundwork: Preparing your home’s landscape for severe weather
Is your older home’s landscape ready to face extreme weather events? Do you have mature trees and established gardens you want to safeguard? What can you do yourself, and when is professional advice needed to understand and prepare your property?
This Fall, Heritage Ottawa will help you do the groundwork!
Extreme weather events are a climate change reality that we will all be facing with increasing regularity. Our summers will see more days of extreme heat and higher-intensity storm events – heavy rainfall, hail and strong, damaging winds (tornados/derechos). Our winters will see heavy snows and dramatic freeze-thaw cycles that bring their own risks.
Our upcoming workshop will be focusing on how weather impacts the outside of your home. We will be hearing from experts on how to prepare for extreme weather events by adapting and building resilience to protect important elements that shape our landscapes. Topics will include good practices for the design and management of rainwater flow (safely re-directing or capturing it for use), and the prudent care and maintenance of trees and shrubs.
Whether you live in the urban core, a suburban neighbourhood, or within our rural climes, learn what you can do yourself and what you may have to contract others to do to prepare your older home’s landscape.
SAVE THE DATE: Thursday November 28, 2024 – 7:00 to 9:00 PM VIA ZOOM
COST: $50 | PAYMENT + REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON
Presenter Biographies: TBA
Thank you to our Sponsors : TBA
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS:
WINDOWS IN YOUR OLDER HOME: SEEING YOUR WAY CLEAR | April 25, 2024 | CLICK HERE for details.
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP: WHO CAN HELP ME WITH THIS OLD HOUSE? | October 14, 2023 | CLICK HERE for details.