Repointing in Wolverhampton
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. Our home base.
Repointing for Homes in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a red brick city, and its mortar is older than most people realise. The terraces around Penn Fields and Whitmore Reans were pointed in lime the best part of a century and a half ago, and where they have been patched since with hard cement, you can often see the brick faces blowing off around the patch, that is the cement doing the damage. The interwar semis have their own weak spot: the gable end that faces the weather, which always goes sandy first.
We cover Wolverhampton and the surrounding area: Bushbury, Fordhouses, Low Hill, Fallings Park, Heath Town and beyond (WV1, WV2, WV3, WV4, WV6, WV10, WV11).
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What’s Included
We repoint the proper way for each age of wall: joints raked or ground out to sound depth, lime-based mortar on the older solid walls so they can breathe, and colour-matched mixes so the work blends instead of striping. Spalled bricks get cut out and swapped for matching reclaimed stock, which for Wolverhampton reds is usually easy to source.
- 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 Wolverhampton, FAQs
Usually, if it is caught in time. The failing cement is raked out, damaged bricks are cut out and replaced with matching reclaimed reds, and the wall is repointed in a lime mix that lets it breathe again. The sooner it is done the fewer bricks need swapping.
Yes, and Wolverhampton has miles of them, front boundary walls on the terraces and long garden runs behind the semis. Freestanding walls take weather from both sides so they usually need attention 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.