keith wrote:
This is for a conservatory, where the previous people stuck
plasterboard on
what was the external wall . I've removed the plasterboard but need
the bricks to look nice. House is 10 year old red brick.
I've just stuck plasterboard onto my outside wall in a conservatory.
But the
bricks looked awful where an old out-house was chipped away etc.
So you won't want to buy my house !
Simon.


Thanks for help. I've tried brick cleaner, not much use, will avoid
wirebrush, I guess it's down to repeated scrubbing.

Simon might wantt o know why I'm taking the plasterboard off :
Our house faces south across a valley & gets lot of rain. Rain soaks
bricks and gets past the join where conservatory roof joins house, by
seepng down through bricks.
Bricks above door get waterlogged, never dry out due to
plasterboard, and after heavy rain you get pools of water dripping
through the plasterboard... I'm hoping that exposing th ebricks will
let them dry out between times.

So your neglecting the wirebrush method on the basis that someone said it
"that usually damages the brick"?

I'm not saying go at it like a demented demon scrubbing it.
A light brisk rub with wirebrush will eradicate the greyness and if as you
say the red brick is ten years old then the hardness is still there.

Suit yourself.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite