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ROOM 8: FINISHING


FINISHING THE PIECES: POLISHING AND VARNISHING

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In this chamber the processes of polished and re-polished were located, as part of the final finished stage for the different metal pieces. Before the refurbishing works this chamber was highly deteriorated, mainly because of the several leaks that were ruining the original ceiling.  Damp was also damaging the big wooden armours of the ceiling and the strong wooden pillars from the structure, so all the details in this room had to be reinforced and treated.

Nowadays, this room is kept as it originally was: a place where the final production process was carried out, joining the metal baths and the acids that were located in the opposite room long ago, and the original polished one and re-polished workshops. In here we can look at two different processes divided now by a newly built uneven wall. On one side, the old bath buckets are located, and on the other side the polishing machines. The presence of the "pulpo" is especially striking (a hoovering device with different pipes which appearance resembles an octopus).