Repointing in Wombourne
Repointing and brickwork repairs by a team that lays brick for a living: old mortar out, the right mix in, matched to the wall. About seven miles south of our base.
Repointing for Homes in Wombourne
Brick in Wombourne is generally well cared for, so our repointing here leans preventive and cosmetic-critical, weather gables, chimney breasts, porch piers, and the long garden and boundary walls that frame the village’s plots and lanes. Matching matters on houses this visible, colour, sand and joint profile chosen against the wall, not from a bag.
We cover Wombourne and the surrounding area: The Village core, Ounsdale, Blakeley, Giggetty, Bratch and beyond (WV5).
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What’s Included
The older buildings around the green and along the Bratch get the gentler treatment their age calls for, raked joints and lime-based mixes, while the sixties and seventies stock takes a conventional repoint. Frost-popped bricks are cut out and matched, and copings on garden walls rebedded before winter gets under 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 Wombourne, FAQs
Usually yes, coping stones rebedded, the top courses repointed, and any frost-damaged bricks swapped. Long garden walls fail from the top down, so sorting the crown early keeps the rest standing for years.
Done properly it restores it rather than changes it, we match the mortar colour and joint style so the new work blends as it weathers. The wrong repoint in a bright grey cement is exactly what we are careful never to 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.
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.