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As Charlie said, most 50's construction used cement mortar with lime added as a plasticizer. Sand/cement mortar is not very workable...

The chances are it is sand and cement, as lime mortar was rarely used in the late 50s.

You can get V jointers, as well as some cheap junk, but the better ones are made by Rose. They aren't the original company, but the...

There's a jointer the Yanks use called a sled runner that's good for getting a straight line along a thicker bed.

It can be cleaned, although textured bricks are a bit harder. You can get brick and mortar stains as well. If the colour of the joints...

You're in a generous mood woody. I'd say he's a very inexperienced bricklayer, probably trying to tie into 2 7/8 inch imperial...

Every photo seems to get worse. Has your mate booked a tanker load.of acid for next week?

It's a metal tool to finish the joints. The size of them suggests he needs one the size of a scaffold tube.

That's takes some effort to lose 2 courses in that height. Maybe he's got shares in Blue Circle. Wonder if all his jobs are done like this.

The window height looks like 1050mm going on the internal blockwork, should be 14 course of brick, they have 12, is that a scaffold tube...

Both the bed and cross joints are miles too big.

You can if you want, but it goes off really quick, so you need to work it into shape really quick. Probably best to mix up just enough...

This was the internal wall of a barn conversation I worked on years ago. Turned out that manure had been piled up high against the wall...

yes, exactly. I had a conversation with my BC man once we'd stripped back to bare brick, and our consensus was internally insulate using...

Air usually goes both ways through a wall, but with a cavity wall it will normally condense on the inside of the outer skin. If your...