Brickwork
Repointing a row of brick cottages
Failing cement pointing raked out and replaced in lime across four cottage fronts.
Area
Whitlow Cross
Time on site
3 weeks
Budget band
£10k – £15k
Floor area
140 m² of wall
Finished
August 2025
Before
After
The brief
Four neighbours in a row of 1850s cottages had damp patches on their front walls. Someone had repointed them in hard cement years ago, and the bricks were starting to crumble around it.
What we did
We scaffolded the whole row, raked out the cement by hand, replaced about sixty spalled bricks with reclaimed ones that matched, and repointed in a natural hydraulic lime mortar. The neighbours split the scaffold cost four ways.
How it went
Three weeks in dry weather. The walls had dried out by the following winter, and two of the neighbours have since booked us to do the backs.
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Gallery
On site and finished.
