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    Pointing- Material Calculation

    Yes this does help. The wall is 20 square metres approx. I think what you are saying is....the amount of materials is pretty small so just buy a few bags and see were you get to?
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    Pointing- Material Calculation

    Haha fair point. I just this calculator http://www.lime-mortars.co.uk/calculators/pointing which says 11kg per m which seemed quite a lot. Would that actually seem reasonable? Cheers
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    Pointing- Material Calculation

    Hi Does anybody have a calculation I can use to work out how much mortar I need per sq m. I know it needs to be 3/1 or 4/1 but I can't find out how MUCH mortar I need anywhere (I've spent about two hours googling!) It's a garden wall with red bricks and I'll be grinding out to about 20mm, the...
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    Frog tape puling off the Valspar paint!

    I've found the Valspar paint great, I've had frogtape pull of Crown ceiling emulsion and Valspar emulsion...
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    Paint to Protect Garden Wall

    Hi My brick garden wall needs some attention, in an ideal world this would be repointed but cost is prohibitive. I was thinking of painting it with Sandtex, will this stop or slow the rate of degradation at all? Thanks Shaun
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