Repointing in Bilston
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. Ten minutes south of our base.
Repointing for Homes in Bilston
Bilston brick has been through more than most, industrial smoke for a century, ground movement from old workings, and repairs in whatever mortar was cheap at the time. You can read all of it in the walls: hard grey cement patches next to original lime joints, and brick faces blowing where the cement trapped moisture. Sorting that mix properly is exactly the work we like.
We cover Bilston and the surrounding area: Bradley, Stowlawn, The Lunt, Bunker’s Hill, Portobello and beyond (WV14).
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What’s Included
We rake out the failed and wrong mortar, match a mix to the wall’s age and colour, and repoint so the elevation reads as one wall again. Old movement cracks get stitched visually with matched pointing once we are satisfied they are historic; if a crack looks live we say so before any cosmetic work.
- Repointing to house walls, gables and garden walls
- Old mortar ground out to a sound depth, not skimmed over
- Mortar colour and joint finish matched to the original
- Lime mortar used where older solid walls need it
- Spalled and cracked bricks cut out and replaced
- Chimney stacks repointed and rebuilt
How It Works
Repointing in Bilston, FAQs
Yes, that patchwork look is fixable. We rake out the failed and mismatched areas and repoint with a mix matched to the original joints, so the front of the house stops looking like a repair map.
Bilston has plenty of historic movement cracks that settled decades ago and just need proper repointing. The honest check is whether it is moving now, and if we have any doubt we will recommend an engineer’s opinion before we make it pretty. No scare stories either way.
Run a key along a mortar joint. If it crumbles out sandy, or you can see gaps and shadows between the bricks, the pointing is past its best. Damp patches on inside walls and green staining on the outside are the other common giveaways.
It depends on the wall area, how high the work is and how hard the old mortar is to get out. A patch under a window is a different job to a whole gable end. We quote per job after a free look, so you get an exact written price before anything starts.
We mix to match. New pointing is always a touch fresher than hundred-year-old joints on day one, but we match the sand, colour and joint style so it blends in as it weathers rather than standing out in stripes.