Fireplaces, Heating Stoves, Flues and Chimneys - cleaning a red brick fireplace
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bren04
10-16-05, 09:26 AM
I have a red brick floor to ceiling fireplace which I am going to paint. What is the best solution to clean the bricks with to prepare it for painting? Thanks.
sdchampion
10-16-05, 11:18 AM
I used a solution of Dawn and bleach to clean mine. You'll have to use more "elbow grease" on the soot areas :wall: . Then once I did that, I white washed the fireplace rather than painted a thick coat. It looks really good. The white wash allowed the natural brick to come through and the ugly dark red brick was gone. :D
bren04
10-16-05, 11:57 AM
Thanks for your reply. I haven't heard of white washing the brick. How did you do it? When you white wash, do some of the variations of color in the brick still show through? I wouldn't mind having the brick show through, as long as it is much lighter and the red is gone.