LAST WEEK, I LEARNED BY HAPPENSTANCE that our front patio was being pressure-washed weekly. This has been a helpful effort by the Clean Team of the Venice Beach Business Improvement District (BID), of which Mishkon is a member.
The problem is that water is the enemy of sandstone. It makes the rock flake apart.
Unfortunately, our patio is not well sealed against water penetration, as this post–pressure wash photo shows.
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| 20 min. after a cursory washing, 9/8/22 |
So until the patio is more effectively sealed, we should be doing our best to keep water AWAY from our patio.
And that’s why today (after discussing the matter with our Administrator) I asked the BID Clean Team not to wash off our patio unless we call them and specifically request it. (As we sometimes have done, to clean up an unusual mess.) Let’s see how well that balances our need for cleanliness against our need for preservation.
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