Pointing Question

[Filo]

First of all, is this product any good?

http://www.wickes.co.uk/patch-repair-and-pointing-mortar/invt/222709/


And secondly would adding a little PVA to the mix be beneficial, to help the mortar bond?

 

[joe-90]

You'll always use more than you think - just get a bag of cement and a bag of red sand.

 

[^woody^]

Would he need four bags of red sand with that bag of cement?

 

[joe-90]

Not if he wasn't going to use it all.

 

[Filo]

Just had a first attempt at a bit of pointing, it`s not as easy as it looks is it?

Anyway I took a picture of what I`d done and I thought I`d post it on here and see what you experts think

 

[stuart45]

Looking good. On the bed joints do the corners with the jointer first.

 

[Filo]

I take it you mean one of these

I`ve got to do down the side of the house on the left of that picture, so i`ll do the corners then, I just had a go at that little area beside the door just to see if I could do it without making it a mess. It actually got a bit easier once I`d got the hang of forcing the mortar into the joints

 

[stuart45]

I take it you mean one of these

That's it. Used to use metal bucket handles, but you can't seem to get them now.

 

[^woody^]

No, no, no. those are the worst ones and should be flung back into the channel they came across

Those ones form a V shape rather than a proper half rounded joint

Get a proper Marshalltown jointer, or for a small job like this use some 22mm copper pipe

 

[stuart45]

He's already got the jointer woody, I think he's just using that picture to confirm what I meant by the term jointer.

 

[^woody^]

Oh OK. I was just seeing red at the mere sight of one of those things

 

[joe-90]

Better off with a little pointing trowel.

 

[Filo]

Right the another question, I`ve raked the joints out with a mortar raking disc in the angle grinder, al exept the damp course level which appears to be slate, I`m a bit wary of charging in with the disc in case I damage the slate, any suggestions?