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Restoring copper fireplace

Our new church recently purchased a 50-year old country club facility that had a wonderful (and I'm sure expensive) copper fireplace. It had a 50-year old patina that was just lovely. However, in his zeal to get everything fixed up, one of our members sandblasted the entire surface. It certainly removed the patina--and left us with a horrible salmon-colored metal that only vaguely resembled the original copper. Another member then tried to restore the copper look with lemon juice and baking soda or cream of tartar--I'm not sure which. Within about a week it has turned a dark color, but quite ugly. Is there anything we can do to restore the copper--with patina or without?

Trisha Wall
consumer - Odessa, Texas
2007

I'd use Brasso ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] , which will bring it back to a copper look but not a salmon look. Then let it age itself.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
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2007

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