Repointing in Wednesfield
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. A couple of miles east of our base.
Repointing for Homes in Wednesfield
Wednesfield brickwork splits into two jobs. The postwar estate houses have hit the age where the original mortar goes sandy, always worst on the gable that faces the weather, and gable repoints on Ashmore Park and Wood End are steady work for us. The older brick around the village core and the canal needs gentler treatment, softer mixes and more care matching what is there.
We cover Wednesfield and the surrounding area: Ashmore Park, Wood End, Perry Hall, Fallings Heath, March End and beyond (WV11).
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What’s Included
Either way the method is the same discipline: joints ground or raked to sound depth, the right mortar for the wall’s age, and a colour match so the repoint disappears into the elevation. Spalled bricks get cut out and swapped rather than skimmed over.
- 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 Wednesfield, FAQs
It is worth doing before winter, because open joints plus frost is how brick faces start popping off. A gable repoint caught at the sandy stage is straightforward; left a few more years it starts adding brick replacement to the bill.
Yes, from repointing a leaning run to taking down and rebuilding with the original bricks where they are sound. Freestanding walls weather from both sides, so they usually go before the house does.
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.