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Q: I have a red brick house with white painted window shutters. The problem is that the white paint has bled onto the red brick. Is there a cleaning solution or some other method that I could use to ...

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The appearance of a brick building can be permanently spoiled by bad cleaning techniques or by the use of the wrong cleaning agent. Because of this it is important to ensure that the correct cleaning ...

Question: My brick house was built in 1921. The bricks are a mixture of brown, various shades of red, beige and black. I had some deteriorating mortar replaced, and the handyman smeared the mortar on ...