DavidD wrote:
We have a C17th house, one of the downstairs rooms (24'x15') has
a brick floor which at some point has had a very thin layer of
screen? (is that right it looks like cement) on it.
I'd like to take the screed up and expose the bricks, our damp
proof people also suggest that the floor needs to breathe and
we should remove the screed.

I have pulled up a corner to check the state of the bricks and
they look fine however there is a residue of the cement or
whatever was used for the screed.

Before I start to strip the whole floor I need to know how I'm
going to clean the bricks up and then what I can coat them with
to protect them and make it easy to clean whilst still alloing
the floor to breathe.

Test an area with brick acid, neutralise after with lime, wash.

I don't know what you could coat them with to allow them to
breath & still be easy to clean.

Ps the bricks are on dirt.

On *dirt*? Oy, yuck. Doesn't it smell?


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