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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
Surely they are giving the brick a chemical wash rather than sandblasting it? I thought they realized year's ago that soft Toronto brick does not stand up to sandblasting.  |
You might be right, walking under the scaffolding covering the sidewalk it smelled like outhouse chemicals. Kind of gross but that may have just been what they were using on the bricks. The bricks they had exposed though looked like powder and will probably need replacing.
Interesting side note about bricks in this city. About 15-20 years ago when they first started looking at cleaning up the old Don Valley Brick Works there were 100's of thousands of bricks down there that were never shipped out. One lawyer came in and bought them all for next to nothing with the promise he would remove them from the property. Now he's pretty much the only supplier in the city of actual late 19th early 20th century red bricks that match most of Toronto's old building stock. thus he is the go to guy for many of the cities restoration jobs.