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Sandblasting Interior Brick and Beams
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Sandblasting Interior Brick and Beams
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" If you look over here but the beam has been sandblasted. All the posts and beams it throughout the structure were really covered in. Grease and grime from a century of industrial use here so much of that has been corrected now. And this will be exposed finished surfaces. And if you look across the whole width of the have the space. It's going to be pretty dramatic as the design is gonna incorporate all these existing structural members. Up over on this side of the building. The party wall the exterior wall which is two -- three courses of brick has been sandblasted as well. This is interior break. It's OK to sand blast it I believe they use something which is called a glass bead -- little black beauty it does it. Leave kind of a pocked. Porous surface on what is essentially a soft brick you would never want to do this on the exterior facade of the building because. When you break the surface of the brick like that you're really creating a situation where it will deteriorate in the weather in winters to come and you just don't want who have -- on the inside of the building it's really OK to do it."
