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Masonry Contractor
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2501 Chatham Rd # 4893, Springfield, IL 62704
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One mistake homeowners make with masonry maintenance is power washing brick at too high a pressure. Brick may look indestructible, but the fire skin on the face of older bricks is relatively thin and can be stripped by aggressive cleaning methods. Once removed, the softer interior of the brick is exposed and accelerates spalling over the following winters. Sandblasting causes the same damage, often even worse. The correct way to clean brick is with low pressure rinsing combined with appropriate masonry cleaning solutions that loosen dirt, atmospheric staining, and biological growth without abrading the surface. Springfield, Rochester, and Chatham homes built before the mid twentieth century are particularly vulnerable to overzealous cleaning. Many older brick facades in the region show the long term effects of one bad cleaning decade or two ago, and the resulting damage is essentially impossible to reverse without replacing entire sections of brick.
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