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Kinds of bricklaying and masonry repair
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What to know about bricklaying and masonry repair
Bricklaying is a unit trade — brick, block and stone laid one at a time in mortar — and that is the line separating it from the neighbours it keeps getting confused with. Concrete is poured into a form and cures as one piece, so a poured porch, a slab, footings or a garage floor is concreting. A driveway or a walkway, whether asphalt or pavers bedded on grade, is paving. Water coming into a basement is waterproofing, which happens outside the wall and below the ground rather than in the joints above it. Painting brick is painting. And anything structural — a new opening, a beam, a wall coming out — starts with an engineer and a permit rather than with a trowel. What is left is the large and genuinely useful middle: repointing, brick repair and replacement, chimney masonry, porches, steps, garden and retaining walls, sills, and parging the exposed part of a foundation.
Second, the distinction that decides whether this is a task at all. Cosmetic failure is what this page is for and it is what you can see: crumbling or missing joints, a few spalled faces, a loose sill, a garden wall that has shifted, a porch coming apart. Structural failure looks different. A stepped crack running through the bricks as well as the joints and reopening after every repair, a wall that bulges or leans away from the house, a lintel over a window that has rusted and lifted the brickwork above it, gaps that visibly change with the season — those are a wall telling you it is moving, and the first call is an engineer’s opinion about why. Repointing a moving wall hides the evidence for a year or two and then the crack comes back through the new mortar.
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What a repointing task usually covers
- Raking the failed joints out to a proper depth, not skimming over them
- Matching a mortar mix to the wall rather than to a bag
- Filling, tooling and finishing the joints to match the existing profile
- Protecting the new mortar while it cures
- Clearing the debris and washing down the face
A wall that is moving is not a repointing task. Stepped cracks through the bricks, bulges and lifted lintels want an engineer first.
Try nowWhat to settle before you accept an offer
- What mortar mix, and why that one for this wall?
- How deep are the joints being raked out?
- Where is matching brick coming from, and how long will it take?
- Is this cosmetic, or has something moved?
- How is the work reached, and what gets protected below it?
The flue, the sweep and the roof flashing belong to the roofing side of our pages, even on the same chimney.
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What is repointing, and how do I know if I need it?
It is replacing the mortar between bricks once the old mortar has failed. The tell is simple: run a key along a joint. If it crumbles, powders or falls out, water is already getting behind the face, and the wall is losing its weather protection joint by joint.
Is my crack structural or cosmetic?
A crack that follows the mortar joints and stays put is usually cosmetic. One that runs straight through the bricks, keeps reopening, widens seasonally, or comes with a bulge or a lifted lintel is the wall moving. That is an engineer’s question before it is a bricklayer’s.
Who repairs a chimney, a roofer or a bricklayer?
Both, on different parts. The brick, the crown and the cap are masonry. Sweeping the flue, lining it, the inspection before a wood-burning appliance is used, and the flashing where the stack meets the roof are the roofing side. Say which symptom you have and the offers sort it out.
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