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Styles Façade Solutions® (formerly Thomann-Hanry®) has pulled together a selection of key façade cleaning information to help you understand façade cleaning and restoration. Knowing how best to deal with the issues that can affect your commercial or heritage building’s façade requires an understanding of several different areas, including façade materials, cleaning methods, restoration processes and heritage styling.

Our unique, scaffold-free Façade Gommage cleaning process helps return your commercial or heritage building to its original grandeur, gently removing pollution, staining and biological growth without the need for harsh abrasives. Combined with our additional surveying, restoration and redecoration services, the team at Styles Façade Solutions® is ideally placed to handle any façade-related project, whatever its scale or complexity.

Simply click on the relevant sections below to find the façade cleaning information you need or get in touch with our team directly if you have a specific query about your building’s façade.

How to clean façades

Façade refurbishment and restoration projects are complex undertakings. All too often, timescales and budgets overrun due to a lack of knowledge about…

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How to clean your historic building

Styles Façade Solutions® (formerly Thomann-Hanry®) has built a reputation for delivering unparalleled cleaning and restoration works to some of the UK’s most…

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Façade Gommage

The Façade Gommage cleaning process is a new approach that lifts decades of accumulated dirt in a matter of days, all without…

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Glossary of Stone and other Façade Materials

A good understanding of facade materials used to construct historic and commercial buildings is vital to best understand how to maintain them…

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London: An architectural journey through time…

As one of the world’s great capitals, London’s illustrious history is reflected in nearly 2000 years of architecture. Less planned and coordinated…

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Portland stone: The stone at the heart of London

Portland stone is one of the key building materials used to clad some of the most important buildings across the capital. It…

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Regent Street Disease and how to fix it

Regent Street Disease: The silent destroyer threatening your historic or commercial building. Officially known as Steel Frame Corrosion Regent Street Disease, as…

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CPD on Façade Cleaning

As an integral part of your Continued Professional Development (CPD), let Styles Façade Solutions® (formerly Thomann-Hanry®) help develop your understanding of commercial…

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Introducing Aqua Fend®: Advanced surface protection

Once your commercial or heritage building has been cleaned, you will want to give the façade's surface protection and keep it pristine…

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House of Horrors

WARNING! Building managers of a nervous disposition are advised NOT to continue to this page due to the unspeakable horrors displayed beyond…

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