Lead cleaning tips

The best piece of advice we can give you is this: treat your lead with patination oil first and you won’t have to worry about cleaning it at all.

A good application of patination oil will prevent any unsightly white stains on tiles or brickwork adjacent to new lead work. It seals the surface from damp, so there’s never any lead oxide run-off.

Patination oil gives lead a wonderful sheen and lustre too. It’s quick to apply and works out at pence per square metre.