Another house-related one if you dont mind!
Again, early days in becoming a first time buy, but a number of the houses i have looked at will need some repoint at some time or other (some per
urgently then others!
For a fairy standard size 30's 60s type end terrace or semi what would be a ball park figure for having one, or all three, of the external walls
repointed? Including i presume, scaffolding for access, cutting out the old (not much needed in some places), and replacing with new.
I got reports of about £20/square meter, some time including, sometime excluding scaffolding. Is that about right? around £1000 a wall.
Daniel
It cost me a bag of cement and 4 of sand to do my gable, get the ladder out. If the old stuff is bad enough it will scrape out with a trowel or chisel. It's easy enough off the ladder with a bucket on a piece of wire.
I did a bit on my house easy way, raked out the loose stuff with hand tools and prepared the more difficult bits with mortar rake and put the mortar in with a pointing gun. With gun it is important to use the right mortar mix.
Dunno How? brick walls are made inna UK.
But IF the brick wall is a veneer type ( which has a 1" (or so) airspace behind it and the real building wall ).
THEN stuffing in Mortar under pressure may push the stuff back into that air space and block it, leading to water issues as result.
i would also suggest doing it yourself, a ladder is fine as you dont need to move about much - not like guttering which would be a right polava with a ladder. Last i did it pretty much scraped out, or a tap with a chisel to remove previous repointing.
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Originally posted by britishtrident
I did a bit on my house easy way, raked out the loose stuff with hand tools and prepared the more difficult bits with mortar rake and put the mortar in with a pointing gun. With gun it is important to use the right mortar mix.