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"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:

I dunno. Both this house and its other half are the same - but not all in
the street. It's likely they've been repointed at some time in their 130
year life? But before I bought it - and it didn't look new then. Some 30
odd years ago. Nor can I imagine the previous owner paying one farthing
more than she could get away with. ;-)

My 100 year old one hasn't been repointed for the most part.
I've done a few small areas which need it (including one where
some wally tried repointing with pure cement), but most still
doesn't and is the original. Probably depends heavily on the
quality of the original lime mortar, the local environment,
and making sure anything like broken guttering gets quickly
fixed.

I'm pretty certain the pointing isn't lime mortar anywhere. Although the
main mortar is. The house had a fair shaking in the war and perhaps there
was quite a bit of work done afterwards.

It was quite common for cement to be used in the pointing
with lime mortar houses even at original build, to improve
the protection against weathering.

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