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I'm generally of the same thinking, which is why I've stripped all traces of external paint from my house and re-pointed in lime mortar. But the chap who cut the bricks back (who also does a lot of conservation work) suggested the bricks might get knackered from frost in the future without treatment. I guess time will tell.
rodabod-
the chap who cut the bricks back (who also does a lot of conservation work)
is this really a thing? I don't like the freshly sanded bright bricks look and just assume it's kind of anti-conservation to take off the face of old bricks.
it's only the red brick headers and the side reveals that have been ground back on mine, I specifically asked them not to do it to (the rest of) the wall and use chemical paint stripper (my poor garden... ) -
Building conservation is a completely different game to restoration. If he's a true brickwork conservator, there's no way in a million years that he would be allowed to grind the face of brickwork off.
Never, never, never.
hoefla
Aunt_Maud
I'm very wary of using anything impervious to water when dealing with brickwork that was put together with porosity in mind.
Water always finds a way in, and when it can't get out again, bad things happen.