Repointing in Codsall
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. Around six miles northwest of our base.
Repointing for Homes in Codsall
Brick in Codsall is generally good and generally loved, which makes repointing here about keeping standards up rather than rescuing disasters. Weather-facing gables and chimney breasts go sandy first, and the village’s garden walls, porch piers and gate pillars, of which Codsall has miles, weather from both sides and usually need attention before the houses do.
We cover Codsall and the surrounding area: Bilbrook, Codsall Wood, Oaken, Birches Bridge, Husphins Lane end and beyond (WV8).
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What’s Included
We match mortar colour and joint style to each property, grind or rake joints to sound depth, and swap any frost-damaged bricks for matched stock. On the older cottages toward Codsall Wood and Oaken, softer lime-based mixes get used where the age of the wall calls for them.
- 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 Codsall, FAQs
Depends on the lean. A stable historic lean with tired joints can be repointed and retained; a wall moving at the base wants taking down and rebuilding, usually reusing its own bricks. We tell you which yours is, with the honest price for each.
Yes, and in Codsall that is the most common repoint we do, the weather gable fails a decade or more before the sheltered elevations. Doing the gable properly now defers the rest for years.
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.