Repointing in Tettenhall
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. Across the city on the west side.
Repointing for Homes in Tettenhall
Tettenhall brickwork is quality material laid in lime, and it fails gracefully unless someone attacks it with cement. Our repointing here is conservation-minded: joints raked by hand where the brick arrises are soft, a lime mortar matched to the original in colour and texture, and finishes kept consistent with the elevation, whether that is a flush joint or the neat weather-struck work of the Edwardian builders.
We cover Tettenhall and the surrounding area: Tettenhall Wood, Upper Green, The Rock, Wergs, Newbridge and beyond (WV6).
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What’s Included
The details make these houses, blue brick plinths and string courses, gauged arches over windows, contrasting quoins, and we repair them like-for-like. Blown bricks are cut out and replaced with matched reclaimed stock, never skimmed with coloured mortar to fake a face.
- 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 Tettenhall, FAQs
Usually, and it is worth doing. The cement is carefully raked out, damaged bricks replaced, and the wall repointed in lime so it can breathe again. It is slower work than modern repointing, which is why it is priced after inspection, but it stops the decay rather than hiding it.
Yes, gauged and rubbed brick arches are skilled but standard work for us. Loose voussoirs are rebedded and failed ones replaced with matched brick, keeping the fine joints that make these arches look the way they do.
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.