Another Hard Day of Work

We got stuck in finishing off the dirty work in the kitchen today, chasing out the black mortar before we started to clean the bricks. I left Sarah in charge to get things going as I waited for Phil to drop off a table for tomorrows Half Marathon. Getting to the house I discovered that Sarah had taped up the plastic to stop the dust. While an admirable effort it was not effective enough to stop the dust from entering the rest of the house. So the first job was to tape up the plastic and to stop any  of the dust from going everywhere. That done Sarah handed over the reigns of the angle grinder to me to chase out the top three or four rows of bricks. That done and a lot of scraping laterwe had a break for lunch. I must have looked like a regular coal miner as I left the house this morning. Sarah had a disposable suite to wear, I got covered in the black dust from head to toe. Not even a wash under the kitchen sink could dent the layers of black dust that had gone everywhere.

The afternoon's plan was to finish off the dirty work, which would mean the end to the copious amounts of black dust everywhere. A bit more scraping and a going over with the grinder again with the wire brush in it and we were ready to have a go at some brick acid to give the bricks a spruce up. The difference is amazing, the once dreary black coated bricks after a scrub with the acid and a bit of elbow grease turn out to be nice and orange. I would say that there is only a half a days worth of work to scrub the bricks down, just have to work out what is the best way to get all the grim off the bricks.