Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists
Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 days agoThat looks like a historic town centre building so the cost is likely for replacing the blocks with identical sandstone pieces in line with historic conservation laws. I suspect the paint won’t just clean off.
They’ve got plenty of money though.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Not replacing but restoration work involves studies of the materials to choose the chemicals, meticulous cleaning (sometimes with a toothbrush) and even repainting with the exact color match which again involves studies, sometimes it goes as far as taking samples and running chromatography on them.