You are reading a single comment by @hoefla and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
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... )
hoefla
rodabod
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.