Repointing with Lime

JohnD · 2 Sep 2009

Digging up my 2007 posts Shy?

This is why I said it

JohnD said:
My mother's house in outer London was built with soft red bricks and lime mortar, but was pointed from new with cement mortar (this seems to have been done on more expensive houses). Most of it is still there after 103 years. Where the lime is exposed it is very soft and crumbly. You could wear it away with a paintbrush.

105 years now.

Shytalkz · 3 Sep 2009

No, there's a 2009 answer above mine, I just didn't happen to notice the OP date.

If it's 105 years old, there is no way that that is just a cement mortar for pointing.

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Repointing with Lime

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