On 3/25/2010 1:58 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

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In a message dated 3/25/2010 1:35:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

efflorescence caused by the use of an acidic wash during clean-up.

Yeah, I was thinking of that, looking at the 1923 Pershing Square Building, at 42nd and Park. It is this lovely tawny masterpiece of mottled buff, yellow and brown brick, which to my eye got sort of burned in a cleaning. Do buildings ever recover from that? c

IMHO i don't think so. unless getting dirty again is a recovery

reminds me... a UPS building over on the west side of Manhattan had a block long tile mural that was painted over in their UPS brown... we were asked about stripping the paint and the conversation went along just fine until it was revealed that the reason it was painted over was that someone had burnt the glaze on the whole thing with an acid wash... and that it cld lead to the family of the deceased artist getting more upset than they already were

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