After pointing the chimneys last week, we haven’t been able to do any more pointing. We have been hampered by the fine weather – if the weather is too hot, the pointing dries out too quickly, cracks and falls off. Not exactly what you want!
The front of the building is in the shade much of the day, so today we have made a start here. The rear of the building which is South facing is in direct sunlight for most of the day. We had been waiting for the current hot spell to come to an end but I suspect that we are going to have to put up some tarpaulins on the scaffold to get some shade.
After doing a couple of test panels we have decided to repoint the property using a traditional lime mortar rather than a cement based mortar.
Re-poininting the stone work makes a huge difference to the external appearance.
We are using a lime mortar to repoint the property. The front of the house can be repointed in this fine weather as it is in the shade for most of the day.
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