"stuart noble" wrote in message
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You get better results using lime for pointing than cement. I gave you
the link twice... no exucse for ignorance.

1/4" thickness of lime mortar would be washed away with the first
rainfall.

Nonsense. I am repointing and in places re-rendering the outside of my
house in a lime mortar and it survives rain very well indeed.


Perhaps you mean hydraulic lime?

That's a French product for French houses :-)


. http://www.periodproperty.co.uk is rather far up its own arse for my
taste.

Didn't used to be but once those with experience were driven off it has gone
that way.