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Peter Mac
I had mentioned this pretty far back:no replies, and can't even find it. It's the same building I'm talking about here; same sandstone. Someone with questionable intelligence smeared cement (yes, nasty grey colour portland) over the wall, in great patches, each patch being about a foot and a 1/2 square. There are heaps of these, some joined up together.
I've now started to gently remove some of these patches with just a hammer and chisel, just the ones that are hollow sounding. The stones' surfaces behind that I've now uncovered sort of dip in in the center of each one, like a "c" shape, but only around 10 -15mm in the centre at worst. This wasn't me chopping great lumps out of them, they must have been weathered when they were covered with cement.
Should I use the 1 hydraulic lime to 3 sand mix to point around these, will this be ok? Or is there a stronger mix that's better?
This work is going to take me ages as I'm not going to use power tools: the stone is rubbish enough without being trashed.
Thanks a lot;
and anyone can reply to this if they really know what their talking about. This building has been trashed already, so it needs a good repair job!
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The post you want was posted in General Diy in October (wrong forum, which is probably why no one replied) I just now moved and locked it, but for info, it is here
I've now started to gently remove some of these patches with just a hammer and chisel, just the ones that are hollow sounding. The stones' surfaces behind that I've now uncovered sort of dip in in the center of each one, like a "c" shape, but only around 10 -15mm in the centre at worst. This wasn't me chopping great lumps out of them, they must have been weathered when they were covered with cement.
Should I use the 1 hydraulic lime to 3 sand mix to point around these, will this be ok? Or is there a stronger mix that's better?
This work is going to take me ages as I'm not going to use power tools: the stone is rubbish enough without being trashed.
Thanks a lot;
and anyone can reply to this if they really know what their talking about. This building has been trashed already, so it needs a good repair job!
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moderator
The post you want was posted in General Diy in October (wrong forum, which is probably why no one replied) I just now moved and locked it, but for info, it is here