Gabe wrote:
*start w/water*

Ken, help me out here, do you agree with this advice? On the fireplace: 
start w/ a bucket of water, then add Ivory Flakes and let them dissolve, 
use a soft scrub brush to work solution into brick, let it dwell a few 
minutes (test a patch first?), use cloth diapers or old towels to blot 
it off, spray with plain water and blot that off. Start with cold water, 
if that doesn't work, use warm to slightly hot water. That's the way we 
cleaned the diesel soot and other dirt off the stone on the interior 
above the doors in that church by the park, can't remember the name.... 
Donald Trump's church, with the giant stone altar.

It won't be pristine, but it won't have that sour bacon smell any more 
either.

~deb

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