Tampering with the Parliament House|The total costs of the cleaning will be confirmed after the work is completed, says the building construction master of the parliament.
in Helsinki The hot steam cleaning of the facade of the Parliament building will start on Monday morning, the building construction master of the Parliament tells STT Juha-Pekka Ryynänen. Time has been reserved for the work until at least Wednesday.
“And maybe we’ll continue on from that as well. It kind of depends on how it goes,” says Ryynänen.
The granite pillars of the facade, and especially their seams, still have paint that environmental activists sprayed on them a week and a half ago. There are also some residues in the metal structures of the doors.
The test cleaning of the facade with high-pressure steam was done a week ago on Monday. At that time, it was noted that it is difficult to clean the porous mortar joints of the facade, but the test cleaning of a few pillars without lifting devices yielded results.
“Everything else can certainly be cleaned from there, but the seams are a problem. They push the color they have absorbed deep there,” Ryynänen told STT earlier.
According to Ryynänen, the total costs that will accrue from the messing up of the parliament building will only be clear after the work is completed, but according to the contractor’s estimate, at least 6,000–7,000 euros will go into the cleaning work. Cleaning is paid for by the chancellery of the Parliament from the operating expenses of the Real Estate Office.
Cleaning work can be even longer if the seams of the facade columns are not cleaned and they have to be renewed. Ryynänen estimated for STT that this work would take two employees about a week.
During the cleaning work, the main staircase of the Parliament building will be closed.
The real estate manager of the Parliament Sari Turunen told STT a week ago on Monday that the presentation on the cleaning method came from the Finnish Museum Agency and that an external company Ukri was chosen to implement the cleaning. Hot steam cleaning was chosen because it was the gentlest cleaning method.
Activists of Elokapina and the Swedish Återställ Våtmarker smeared the pillars of the Parliament building with red paint on Wednesday, September 25, as a protest against the continued removal of peat. The police have said that they are investigating the case as an aggravated assault.
Ryynänen according to the activists, compensation for messing up the facade is going to be demanded, but the fate of the compensation will only be clarified at the end of a long legal process.
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