Heritage front repoint
A tired 1920s facade, raked out by hand and repointed in lime so it looks as it did when built.
Scope
Rake out and repoint 140 m² of 1920s face brick in lime mortar
Time on site
3 weeks
Materials
Hydraulic lime mortar, colour-matched sand
Type
Heritage
Before and after.
How it went.
Decades of hard cement patching had trapped moisture in the soft bricks, and the faces were starting to flake.
The fix
Every joint raked out by hand to an even depth, damaged bricks replaced with reclaimed matches, then repointed in a hydraulic lime mortar trialled on site until the colour sat right.
The result
The wall can breathe again, and you cannot tell where the old pointing stopped.
“Our front looked tired for years. Now it looks like it did when it was built.”
Homeowners, heritage repoint
Joints before the rake-out
The finished face, washed down
