This large scale job shows some of the lime streaks on the front facade of the Orange Country Fire Authority. Although this is a small sample of the lime run and efflorescence at this building complex, it represents the type of public project work, commonly entrusted to Bielski.
Lime streaks occur primarily during new construction when CMU grout cells are exposed to inclement weather cycles. This weather pattern dissolves the free lime in the mortar, as days pass the CMU wall dries at the surface, the free lime then migrates to the surface of the CMU block and forms crystalline lime run.
Cleaned exterior and interior split face and precession cmu block surfaces. 
