BRONZE MONUMENT CLEANING

MAINTENANCE, CONSERVATION AND GRAFFITI REMOVAL

CLEANING BRONZE MONUMENTS IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THEIR CONSERVATION

Bronze monument cleaning and conservation should be undertaken regularly and be part of a maintenance program. In common with other types of outdoor bronze features, such as war memorials, bronze monument cleaning and the application of new wax protective coating needs to be undertaken frequently.

Cleaning bronze helps to slow down degradation and can prevent other costly treatments becoming necessary. This is relevant to contemporary bronze statues as well as historic ones.

It may be necessary to do more than bronze cleaning if the monument is in very poor condition. Cleaning and conservation treatments can stabilise an object and reduce disfiguration but they cannot restore a bronze’s intended patina.

Bronze restoration may be necessary when the original patina has become seriously damaged or disfigured by corrosion or vandalism. One monument restoration project, we recently undertook was The Aldersgate Flame at The Museum of London.

If you would like to see some of the bronze monuments that we have cleaned, check out our Gallery page.

BRONZE MAINTENANCE

Quintin Hogg

ONGOING BRONZE MAINTENANCE

Raoul Wallenburg Marble Arch

BRONZE MAINTENANCE

Robert Burns

We specialise in looking after large collections of public art and monuments for clients such as Canary Wharf, Historic Royal Palaces and several UK Councils. Registered with multiple H&S schemes including SafeContractor, Altiusva, CHAS and Constructionline, you don’t have to worry about us not having the right protection in place to keep the public safe.

When carrying out bronze monument cleaning, we also embrace our role as ambassadors for these statues and always take the time to engage with the public during our work and tell them what we are doing and why.

When carrying out a recent monument cleaning project on The Bomber Command Monument in Green Park, London, we talked frequently to those who visited the memorial. This was an interesting and complex project and if you’d like to know more, do read our post all about it.

Bronze Monument Cleaning of Queen Elizabeth II Statue

Monument to Queen Elizabeth II in Gravesend

REMOVING GRAFFITI

We know how to remove graffiti from bronze without damaging the original patina. With historic bronze monuments or art bronzes, this is surprisingly difficult. We are often brought in to deal with the most complex types of graffiti removal on bronze. It is suprisingly easy to damage a bronze surface by using a commercial cleaning product, machine cleaning or with over-zealous abrasion. We use the same techniques as Museums use on their artefacts – in many instances, galleries and museums use us to clean their large bronze sculpture because they know that we are careful, knowledgeable and ethical in our approach.

Our experienced team uses researched graffiti removal techniques and, where possible, environmentally-friendly solutions that effectively eliminate unwanted markings while preserving the integrity of your precious patina. Safety and protection are our priorities. We carefully assess each project to determine the most appropriate removal method, ensuring surrounding materials won’t be damaged during the process. If the work is at height, we have various types of access equipment at our disposal from towers to MEWPs and our teams are fully trained to use them safely. Traffic management might be involved with a public monument and we can handle that for you too.