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Or that awful dyed brick repair crap
wat dis?
all the local brick repointing/restoration outfits seem to love a tuck pointing, but I think it looks kinda naff if done so-so, and if done perfectly (so you can't see the coloured mortar) it just looks too formal for an ordinary 1920s house. -
The neighbours at our previous house in Somerset had the builders in to do some re-pointing to the side of their house. They used bags of hydrated lime instead of hydraulic lime and wondered why after pointing the house for a week, the mortar was not setting.
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Aunt_Maud
@NotThamesWater
^ I'd guess builders will use NHL, as it's closer to cement to work with.
It's probably worth finding out though, if nothing else jsutbto check they aren't sneakk in a bit of Portland, as aunt_maud says.
But yeah - soft reds only really get damaged when someone has reported with a cement mortar.
Or that awful dyed brick repair crap that someone has slapped on my place