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That looks like it's been rebuilt or had significant brickwork repair at some point.
Is there a problem with it? What's the context?
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Was going to fit cowls, to stop water ingress through disused chimneys, bloke said he could do it off a ladder but once he got up there it was too high to reach, so we're looking at scaffolding and I figure that would be a good chance to do running repairs. I see a few weeds growing from the mortar and need of a bit of re-pointing, but it's not actually causing problems [yet] other than rain coming in the open pots.
our report 4 years ago when we bought sid to keep an eye on it as the brickwork bows outwards, but I don't think it's moved at all.
Polygon
Pointing on chimneys in Victorian houses - does it need to be lime as elsewhere?
Just seen some photos of mine close up and looks a lot like cement mortar, all the lime mortar here was black as mixed with with coal slag. Surprisingly it doesn't actually seem to have a terrible effect so wonder if it's possibly an exception to the rule of using like-for-like materials to original. Maybe different, harder bricks than elsewhere were used...