THE PROJECT:
Farm Credit Building, McLean, VA
THE EXTERIOR SURFACE:
Indiana Limestone
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THE CHALLENGE: The owners of the Farm Credit Building had
spent eleven months, hired three different cleaning companies
and spent in excess of $500,000 unsuccessfully attempting to clean
the exterior of their unique building. The badly stained exterior
had not come clean in the previous attempts using other cleaning
companies; making the job tougher was the soft Indiana limestone
exterior that precluded any sort of abrasive cleaning methodology.
THE METRO CLEAN SOLUTION: Metro Clean was hired to
solve the problem in November of 1995. Three days after Metro
Clean had been selected, the building was cleaned exactly to the
owners' specifications and at a fraction of the cost of the previously
unsuccessful efforts. The building's owners were amazed: not only
with the fact that the building was successfully cleaned but with the
time it took to complete the job. After spending nearly a year
attempting to clean the exterior, Metro Clean Systems, Inc. cleaned
the estimated 145,000 square feet of building exterior in just a few
days. No scaffolding was used to complete the task.
THE RESULT: Management of the building was so pleased
with the result that they achieved through Metro Clean that
they retained the company to complete bi-annual maintenance
cleanings on the building. "Metro Clean has restored the building
to its original appearance... something which you promised but I
did not think was possible," said Timothy J. Fletcher of the FCS
Building Association, owner of the Farm Credit Building.
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