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Pointing like this:-
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We live in a gritstone clad house in Sheffield, originally pointed with very soft black ash mortar, (the black stuff in the pic above). At various points in time bits of the pointing have been bodged up with a variety of materials, includng portland cement based mortar, and something that looks suspiciously like floortile grout.
The time has come to get the whole lot done properly, but I'm slightly confused as to what material to use for the pointing. Gut feel is that lime mortar is the right thing, as IIRC, it's more elastic and breaths better. However working with lime mortar seems like a very specialist thing and therefore is much more expensive to get done. Portland cement based is much easier to come by, but I don't want to go down that road if it means in a year or 10's time I find my bricks starting to disintegrate...
Thoughts/ideas?
Thanks!
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How old is the property?
1910, 1920?
I am just having my yorkshire stone house completely repointed using 3.5 lime as I have no cavity wall, just solid stone, its not a cheap job, am just up the road in barnsley if you want to see it being done, email me if you want more info
I would recommend giving these people a call http://www.mikewye.co.uk/index.htm
Very helpful and can give tips as working with lime isn't rocket science.
If you are hiring someone to do it, I can tell you who not to use as the muppet who did mine did 27K worth of damage and filled the drains with lime render......... which I had to then dig out and replace
Very much planning to get someone else to do it - I have neither the time or the patience for that kind of work. Could do/assist with the grinding out bit, but then I don't have dust extraction gear either.
Swampi & Rich - will be in touch, thanks.