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Is there an "easy" way to repoint a wall?
- Thread starter teslacoils
- Start date
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
If you use lime mortar, dont do it till after the last frost as it is delicate for some weeks
Is it on brick or stone?
Sandstone pointing is a dark art. We had a builder do some pointing a while back, and he frankly made an arse of the job using a cement mix with a tiny bit of lime, which is causing the stone to spall around it.
We then found an excellent stone mason whose work was in a different league. He uses sand with small grit, non hydraulic lime, and a little bit of OPC (7th by volume iirc) and works it into the dampened joints before brushing it when it’s half set to expose the grit.
Sandstone pointing is a dark art. We had a builder do some pointing a while back, and he frankly made an arse of the job using a cement mix with a tiny bit of lime, which is causing the stone to spall around it.
We then found an excellent stone mason whose work was in a different league. He uses sand with small grit, non hydraulic lime, and a little bit of OPC (7th by volume iirc) and works it into the dampened joints before brushing it when it’s half set to expose the grit.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's yellow brick.
Get a gang into do it. Im a builder don't mind pointing in stone work but brick work pointing is so tedious bricks are so small these pointing gangs have machines that mix it and pump it into guns it will so much quicker. if you do it yourself I give you a day before you get p#ssed off with it. Spend your time doing something you enjoy and good at life's to short.