Maintaining the exterior of a building can pay off in more way than one. With regular maintenance, thorough cleaning and strategic repairs, you can add years to the life of your building, keep tenants happy and prevent more costly damage. Attract current and potential tenants with a hot pressure washing program. Whether it’s your building’s […]
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Atomospheric staining, Blog, StoneWinter weather has arrived in Kansas City! Soon it will be time for your snow removal contractors to come spread salt around your building exterior to prevent accidents and protect occupants and visitors. However, the salt they commonly use can be highly corrosive to many of your exterior surfaces. Did you know that the chloride
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Blog, MetalA great metal maintenance plan starts at the entrance to your property and keeps going through the smallest or sometimes overlooked parts of your building. Entrance thresholds can often be overlooked as we step right over and into a building, but with the number of shoes walking over thresholds, dragging detritus from outdoors or the
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BlogMaking your “Talk in an Elevator Day” the best it can be! KC Restoration’s refinishing technicians revive the bronze and metal you see all around the entrances and cabs of elevators whether scratch removal is needed, a maintenance visit for upkeep, or a dated look needs a refreshing new random design or custom patina. Check
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GeneralAfter this morning’s commute dealing with the metro’s 2nd round of winter precipitation, we thought it would be the perfect time to post about the effects of winter weather on the metal accenting your buildings and some tips on how best to handle ice, snow melt, and the rust or corrosion that can be left
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GeneralDamage or years of wear and tear can lead to rust on metal, but that rust can also spread to surrounding areas. As you can see in these photos taken outside the Town Pavilion Building in downtown Kansas City, rust from exterior metal handrails was absorbed into the surrounding granite, causing a very unattractive and
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GeneralKC Restoration has been hired to refinish and remove all the years of rust from the stainless steel handrails in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts’ parking garage. We’re proud to have our restoration expertise trusted and relied upon by the Kauffman and JE Dunn who is running the project. Here are some photos
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GeneralKC Restoration recently got to work in one of Kansas City’s architectural icons – the Central Library! We were hired to remove years of rust and restore the bank vault that Kansas Citians have come to know as the Stanley Durwood Film Vault. It started out as a bank vault installed around 1925 in the
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GeneralDamage or years of wear and tear can lead to rust on metal, but that rust can also spread to surrounding areas. As you can see in these photos taken outside the Town Pavilion Building in downtown Kansas City, rust from exterior metal handrails was absorbed into the surrounding granite, causing a very unattractive and
KC Restoration’s crews were out this past weekend refinishing stainless steel handrails and removing the damaging effects of winter and snowmelt which both cause the rust you can see on the before image. Our talented technicians are great at transforming rusty to looking good as new and protecting stainless steel from greater damage and more
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