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 Brick cleaner - Ted

I have a 1925 red brick house and about 4 yrs ago I demolished a stupid sandstone trough at the front of the house and got a pal at the bike club to build me a nice red brick wall with end pillars and old terracotta cappings, which I already had. It has a feature on the road side in blue bricks....a lovely job.

Now, a number of the bricks are leaching white onto their surface...I think they were ' Elizabethan ' bricks when I ordered them.

So, how do I clean them up? The blues are OK. I've tried brick acid on an extension we built at the back and I wasn't very impressed. I made the mistake of keeping the black Jowett in a garage for a couple of years with an asbestolux roof and it suffered in places from 'asbestos milk ', I suppose it could have been the start of stalagmites ! I think that's similar to the stuff that comes out of the bricks.
I tried all the usual suspects on that and the only thing I found to be effective was rubbing it with a half lemon dipped in salt.....and it took some removing even then !

Any of you big rufty tufty builders out there recommend a good product ?

Thanks in advance,
Ted
 Messages Author Date
 Brick cleaner new Ted 10 Mar 10 22:45
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 Brick cleaner new Ted 11 Mar 10 13:52
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 Brick cleaner new Ted 13 Mar 10 17:44
 Brick cleaner new Zero 13 Mar 10 18:20
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 Brick cleaner new Ted 13 Mar 10 23:13
 Brick cleaner new crocks 13 Mar 10 23:56
 Brick cleaner new henry k 14 Mar 10 01:03
 Brick cleaner new Ted 14 Mar 10 16:03
 Brick cleaner new Ted 14 Mar 10 16:13
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 Brick cleaner new MD 14 Mar 10 16:37
 Brick cleaner new Ted 14 Mar 10 16:52
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