Repointing dust

[JohnD]

I had one side of my house repointed last year, the builders chased out the joints with what looked like a small angle grinder. The gritty dust was terrible.

I have a garden wall that will soon need doing where it faces the weather. Is there a less dusty way of grinding out the joints?

 

[Nige F]

plugging chisel and lump hammer

 

[JohnD]

slow and hard work
the wall is six foot high and 30 foot long

the exposed mortar is soft enough to scrape with a (thumb) nail
though on the other side of the wall it seems fine

 

[gregers]

youve got 2 choices,easy or bloody hard work.only you can decide.

 

[oldbutnotdead]

If you've got an SDS drill with hammer only setting you can get raking chisels for them- still takes forever and on tight beds you'll have issues but loads easier than the lump hammer and not as messy as the grinder.