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JULY 2002
EACO CHEM NEWS
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NMD-80
Starting at the top.
The Fish and Wildlife Management College that the US government
built in Shepherdstown, West Virginia was the beginning of the
amazing NMD 80 success story. This job first was unique in that
the government was building a whole college at one time, also
each was built to be cohesive in style but unique in appearance.
Many different stones, bricks and blocks including limestone,
sandstone, slate, blue stone, ground faced block and bricks
with colored mortar required a sophisticated understanding of
the available cleaning chemistry or things were going to get
screwed up. |
The mason contractor Franco out of Pittsburgh, PA was
considering subbing out the cleaning for a number of reasons. It was
my good fortune that one in a series of contractors who approached
this job called me when his SureKlean 600 and Diedrich 202 test patches
were rejected on the ground faced block. He had applied them undiluted
and brushed and could not obtain the surface appearance that was desired.
He then called me to see if I had something. I demonstrated the NMD
80 at 4:1 sprayed on and rinsed off and then we called in three car
loads of officials to look at all the tests. They immediately went
to the NMD 80 test patch and said this is what we want. Finally the
whole college was cleaned with a single product and the results were
excellent. Efflorescence and lime putty in the gymnasium on ground
faced block that many thought would never be fixed came right off
without damage. This kind of result with NMD 80 is what we have come
to expect and it led to NMD 80 being used on the 1.8 million brick
Federal Courthouse on the bay in Boston, Massachusetts. That is all
very good but what is amazing is that those officials, many from the
government including the Army Corp of Engineers, chose NMD 80 without
a single piece of literature and with no history of success because
this was the first time it had ever been used on a job. (It would
behoove all of you who haven’t looked at NMD 80 to do so at least
to find out how a product can be so special as to break through that
wall of bureaucracy on a single demonstration. I also need to thank
the many special people at Franco who helped pioneer this product:
Andy Funk, Jack Kramer, Amy)
–Lynn Peden |
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Copyright 2002 by EaCo Chem
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