The outside of the church has been painted with the wrong type of paint. Acrylic based. This paint must be removed with a chemical paint remover, and the church must be painted again with linseed oil paint.

There will be some scraping and painting windows and replacing some cladding and weatherboards that has rot damage.

The church is in good condition, but has been painted with the wrong paint in recent years. Modern acrylic based paint was used, which is too airtight for the type of wall that is on Klæbu church. There is not enough airing behind the cladding, so the humidity that migrates in the wall construction cannot be aired out. The humidity remains therefore in the wall construction and in the wooden cladding. This leads to the humidification of the wood over time, and subsequent rot damage.

All modern paint must be removed, and the walls treated with linseed oil paint.

There is also some rot damage in the cladding and weatherboards at the bottom of the cladding, which must be replaced.

The enquiry is for external work on Klæbu church. Planned work:

— removing of all modern paint,

— replacing rot damaged cladding and weatherboards,

— establish airing at the top of the encasement for the notching and weatherboards below the cladding,

— surface treatment of the entire church with linseed oil paint,

— renovating windows,

— the measures require permission from the Directorate for Cultural Heritage An application has been sent.