Repointing in Bloxwich
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. Twenty minutes northeast of our base.
Repointing for Homes in Bloxwich
Bloxwich brickwork is dominated by its estate gables, big plain elevations of interwar and postwar brick that take the weather for the whole house, and after seventy-odd years the mortar on the exposed ones is going sandy in patches. Gable repoints, porch piers and garden walls are the town’s standard masonry diet.
We cover Bloxwich and the surrounding area: High Street area, Mossley, Lower Farm, Dudley Fields, Little Bloxwich and beyond (WS3).
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What’s Included
The High Street’s Victorian buildings add older, softer brick that wants gentler mixes and more careful matching, plus parapets and copings that head the priority list because they soak the shopfronts below when they fail. We handle both eras with their own mortars and methods.
- 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 Bloxwich, FAQs
Rake a key across a few joints at shoulder height, sandy crumble, visible gaps, or mortar washed back from the brick face all say yes. We confirm from a ladder with photos, and if it honestly has years left we will say that instead.
Urgent-ish, parapet failures dump water into the wall below and fragments onto the frontage, neither good for business. Copings rebedded and the parapet repointed is a contained job that prevents a much messier one.
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.
Most houses built before the 1930s have solid walls that manage moisture by breathing through the joints. Hard cement mortar seals them up, so the moisture escapes through the brick faces instead and blows them apart in frost. A lime-based mix keeps the wall breathing and the bricks intact.
Yes. Bricks with blown or crumbling faces get cut out one at a time and replaced with the closest match we can source, then the area is repointed with the rest of the wall. It is all one visit and one quote.