Restorative Techniques’ products are widely used – as is the expertise of Jamie Fairchild. By visiting sites, carrying out tests and offering cleaning solutions, Jamie takes the headaches away from architects and contractors.

Restorative Techniques has been involved in many high profile jobs. On the ecclesiastical side, Lincoln Cathedral Works Department has updated to the company’s advanced Jos VorTech systems that offer a considerable level of control and feature operator remote pot adjustment. Gloucester Cathedral Works Department has now chosen ThermaTech superheated water systems. Canterbury Cathedral Works Department has both ThermaTech and Jos VorTech systems, and Winchester, Norwich and Rochester Cathedrals have all lately used Restorative Techniques equipment, with resumption of further work at Wakefield. It has also been used at Guildford, which is mainly brick rather than stone.

“We like to think that these types of customers look long and hard at all the options that are available to them and it’s heartening that, after consideration on cost and performance, they are actively moving toward RT equipment and products,” says Julia Fairhust, Jamie’s wife and partner in the business.

She says significant projects, including some that will run for a long time, are now regularly specifying Restorative Techniques’ products – the Palace of Westminster, The Old War Office and MOD buildings in and around Whitehall, The Natural History and V&A Museums. Plenty of less high profile projects have also used the products and they have even been used to clean valuable stone sculptures and artworks.

Fire damaged buildings have been cleaned with Restorative Techniques’ latex poulticing and the company has even been involved in paint removal from the granite lighthouse at Roker Pier, the entrance to Sunderland Harbour.