Clean brickwork on a property can improve its aesthetic and increase the resale value of the property.
Brick cleaning is a cleaning service to help remove carbon staining, bio build up from moss and algae and salt build up from the exterior walls of your property.
The cleaning of brick work can eliminate problems including:
- Loss of colour
- Staining
- Surface Erosion
- Discolouration
- Brick Graffiti Cleaning
Brick is a porous material used in construction and when vandals strike with graffiti paint, the paint can easily sink into the grooves of the surface. This is why it can be so difficult to remove graffiti vandalism from brickwork without damaging the underlying stonework. Especially if you use pressure washing to try and clean it.
Instead of pressure washing, we can use DOFF Steam Cleaning and Softwashing to remove graffiti and cleaning bricks.
Doff Steam Cleaning is a stone cleaning system that uses super heated steam with temperatures reaching up to 150ºC. Controlled with a variable nozzle pressure, it can remove carbon staining, paint and biological matter from stonework without damaging the substrate.
We can also offer TORC Stonework Cleaning System to carefully remove graffiti paint from brick walls without damaging the original material.
TORC Stonework Cleaning is an advanced cleaning system that is the preferred choice of various heritage organisations across Scotland. It can gently remove carbon sulphates, brittle paints, limescale, moss and other bio matter from stonework WITHOUT damaging the building surface.
With these two advanced sandstone stonework cleaning tools, we can offer a class leading service to customers who want their building sandstone cleaned and returned to its former glory.
Brick Cleaning At Height
At Balmore, we are difficult access specialist to ensure that we can access and clean any and all areas of a property, both internal and external, that need to be cleaned. And for this reason, we have our own, in-house access platform that allows us to access various ‘at height locations a lot more easily.
Whether conducting biohazard cleaning, softwashing, sandstone cleaning or using our TORC, Dry Ice or DOFF Steam Cleaning, our roadside high access mobile platform provides our customers with yet another means to reach difficult access points safely and quickly.
Our Mobile Access Platform offers the ideal solution for difficult access cleaning of internal and external locations. The telescopic platform can reach a maximum height of 23 metres or extend outwards up to 13 metres to provide our specialist deep cleaning contractors safe access to conduct necessary cleaning and maintenance work.
Find out more
If you would like to know more about our range of cleaning services including Brick Cleaning, please contact us today.
From our head office in Glasgow, we cover the Central Belt of Scotland for all reactive and planned cleaning contract work.
DOFF Cleaning can be used to remove:
- Paint
- Graffiti vandalism
- Pigeon fouling
- Vermin fouling
- Pollution build up
- Algae, moss and fungi
- Bitumen, oils and grease
Where can DOFF Cleaning be used?
DOFF Cleaning can be used in all brickwork locations. From historic building restoration to hospitals, factories, domestic properties, food production facilities, transportation hubs, railway stations….the list goes on.
Does it require chemicals?
Because the steam is super-heated, there is no need to use harmful chemicals. The DOFF Steam Cleaning steam will actually kill off the spores of biological matter like moss, algae and fungi making it harder to come back. For some DOFF Cleaning Services such as Brickwork cleaning, we can use specially designed solutions to make the cleaning process more thorough. This can be used in a case by case situation.
Will the steam not damage the stonework?
We use the DOFF Steam Cleaning system because it is so delicate with the stonework and masonry that we use it on. Even though the the steam is super heated, the actual pressure at which it comes out of the nossle and onto the surface is very low. This gives a very gentle pressure whilst using a low volume of water (5 litres per minute). The surface is therefore not saturated and will actually dry in minutes.
With no harsh pressure or chemicals being used, there is no damage to the stonework. This is why DOFF Steam Cleaning is approved to be used by various heritage and preservation bodies including English Heritage.
Quotes & Enquiries
At Balmore, we offer the expertise of four decades in difficult access works including roofing, rope access, industrial cleaning and drone inspection services. Our one stop shop approach to inspection, repair and cleaning has grown through our desire to constantly exceed our clients expectations and offer a service that is far superior to our competitors.
Please fill in the form outlining your requirements and our contract team will be able to provide you with a bespoke quotation for your inspection, repair or cleaning needs.
