Home DIY

Currently experimenting with our grim terrace. At some point we will redo it properly, but in the meantime I tried cleaning a section and brushing some spare sand in the cracks to make it look like the brick work it's supposed to rather than, well whatever the fuck it looks like now.

This photo doesn't show what it looks like clean, but you get an idea of the tiles and pattern.

Plan is to:

1. Pressure wash
   
2. Cleaning product if needed, but probably not
   
3. Clean all the cracks thoroughly
   
4. "point"
   
   

For the pointing what would people recommend?

I've seen this easy joint stuff which looks good, but is a bit pricey. I would have thought an old-school 1:1 mix of sand and cement brushed into the cracks and packed down, then left would do the job.