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Before & After

Every photo on this page is our own work. No stock images, no borrowed examples, and nothing retouched beyond resizing it for the web.

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Same wall, one clean apart

Before and after

The honest test of this trade is the same surface photographed twice. Below are four jobs shot from the same position before and after.

Efflorescence on a brick parapet

White salt bloom across the top courses of a parapet wall. The salts are drawn out of the masonry by water moving through it, so the clean is only half the job — the other half is reporting what is letting the water in.

Efflorescence removal

Brick parapet wall with white efflorescence staining across the upper courses before cleaning

Heritage sandstone archway

Scaffolded sandstone arch carrying decades of atmospheric soiling. Sandstone is soft and porous, so this is low pressure and the right chemistry — high pressure would take the face off the stone and cannot be undone.

Sandstone cleaning

Soiled heritage sandstone archway behind scaffolding before cleaning

The same sandstone archway after low pressure cleaning, with the natural stone colour visible again

New build handover clean

Mortar smear and cement film over the whole facade at the end of the bricklaying stage. This is the clean that has to happen before handover, and the one that has to be warranty-compliant.

New home brick cleaning

House under construction with mortar smear across the brick facade before the handover clean

The same house after brick cleaning, with the brickwork and arched entry clean and the mortar joints sharp

Courtyard wall behind an air conditioner

Grime and algae building up on a shaded courtyard wall. Tight access and a fixed unit in the way, which is most of what makes a job like this awkward rather than difficult.

Soft washing

Dirty brick courtyard wall behind an air conditioning unit before cleaning

The same courtyard wall after cleaning, with the brick colour and mortar joints clear again

One frame, both states

Halfway through

Sometimes the clearest picture is the one taken mid-job, where the cleaned and uncleaned surface sit side by side in the same light.

Terracotta tile roof photographed mid-clean, one half bright orange and the other still covered in dark lichen and moss

Tile roof, halfway through

The clearest picture of what a roof clean actually removes: the same tiles, the same light, one pass apart.

Dark brick side passage

A narrow side passage where the brickwork had gone almost uniformly grey. The after is the actual colour of the brick.

Before and after comparison of a brick wall during construction, showing cement film removed from the face of the brickwork

Brickwork during construction

Cement film over new brickwork, taken off without touching the mortar joints.

From the last few years

More of the work

Face brick, glazed brick, feature and heritage masonry, sandstone, roofs and render. Different substrates, different chemistry, same principle.

Close-up of dark glazed brickwork with crisp white mortar joints after cleaning — Glazed brick, mortar joints back to white

Circular sunburst feature brickwork in red and brown brick, cleaned — Circular feature brickwork

Modern building with a curved cream brick facade — Curved facade on a contemporary build

Detail of a decorative brick pier with a geometric pattern — Feature pier detail

Pressure washing moss and lichen from weathered sandstone steps — Sandstone steps, moss removal

White cladding covered in green algae growth before soft washing — Algae on cladding, before

Three bay brick garage with clean brickwork and mortar joints — Garage, after cleaning

Dark brick side wall showing white cement film and mortar smear — Cement film on dark brick

Brick garage wall with staining visible across the face brickwork — Staining across a garage facade

Clean red brown brick wall running alongside a concrete path — Face brick beside a path

Internal brickwork under construction with exposed timber roof framing — Brickwork during construction

Sandstone gate piers at the frontage of a modern home — Sandstone gate piers

Painted rendered wall with grey weathering and staining — Weathered render

Red brick extension with clean brickwork under a blue sky — Extension, after cleaning

Weathered sandstone block wall — Sandstone block wall

Close-up of mixed red and dark brickwork with clean mortar joints — Mixed brick, close up

Some of these were taken years ago on job sites and have been through a few phones since, so a handful are smaller than we would like. They are shown at their true size rather than blown up.

Next step

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