Mortar colour matching

[mpooley]

I have a flint wall that needs a bit of patching - its not an old wall but the colour was matched to the older part of the house which was probably a genuine lime mortar,

is there any way to colour the mortar to get that off white look like the old lime stuff please?

thanks

Mike

 

[Shytalkz]

If it's not that old, it was possibly laid (wrongly) in either a white cement/sand mortar, or a portland cement/lime/sand mix.

But you need to determine if it's a cement-cased mix or a true lime mortar first of all before you can think of matching and how to do it.

 

[mpooley]

If it's not that old, it was possibly laid (wrongly) in either a white cement/sand mortar, or a portland cement/lime/sand mix.

But you need to determine if it's a cement-cased mix or a true lime mortar first of all before you can think of matching and how to do it.

thanks, I have had a good look at it and it seems too soft to be a normal mortar mix so i can only presume its either a weak lime/sand/cement mix or a proper lime mortar.

how do you tell?

mike