How to Clean a Brick Fireplace

If used correctly Bricks make for a beautiful texture indoors and outdoors. However bricks can also become stained discolored and just flat out dirty. The course surface of a brick provides many nooks for soot, especially in a brick fireplace. There are a number of different compounds that can be used
to clean the bricks of a fireplace, but the easiest, cheapest, and safest can be found below.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Measure out about one ounce of dish washing soap with a measuring cup.

2. Measure out one ounce of regular table salt.

3. Mix the two together.

4. Add just enough water so that you make end up with a nice thick paste of all three ingredients.

5. As always with a "do-it-yourself project", use gloves.

6. Take the paste you have created and rub it evenly onto the surface of the brick fireplace using an old rag or clothe, one that you don't mind getting a bit beat up.

7. Let the solution dry on the surface of the brick for roughly fifteen minutes.

8. Once you have let the mixture dry and set into the brick, take a sturdy/stiff brush and scrub the brick well. This process will leave you with a fresh looking brick face on your fireplace. Continue this process until your receive the desired effect evenly across your brick fireplace. Enjoy!