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Following an arson attack on a
lovely old church in Grayshott, we were appointed
by the Parochial Church Council to take on the
mammoth task of restoring the smoke damaged timbers,
stone and stained glass windows.
We built a birdcage scaffold from floor to ceiling
and covered all the pews and floors in protective
sheeting. The soft stone around the stain glass
windows had to be specially treated since wet
cleaning would have resulted in the stone absorbing
the soot. Vacuum recovery blasting using a soft
dry abrasive at low pressure, was therefore required.
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If you apply a scale of 1
to 10 to blast cleaning media (the material
used to literally blast off the offending
coating), rouge would be at level 1- the
softest, with diamond at level 10, the
hardest, then our normal grit would be at
level 7.
The media we used on the church (which type
is our secret!) was a hardness level 3 we
also used this to clean beautiful stained
glass.
Once the hard pine roof timbers had been
vacuum blasted, we restored their colour
with natural beeswax and a small amount
of dark tan boot polish which gave it
a perfect match to the original.
The Chairman of the Parochial Council
kindly wrote:
"On behalf of
all members, I write to express our appreciation
of the excellent result achieved by your
company's cleaning operation on the interior
of the church. Its pristine appearance is
the source of much favourable comment. Please
pass on our congratulations to your team."
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Little Springfield Farm, Plaistow Road, Loxwood, Nr Billingshurst,
West Sussex, RH14 0TS |
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