"Matt" wrote in message
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House built in '82. 3 fireplaces, which all group together into one
chimney, but apparantly have seperate flues, as there are 3 outputs on
top of the chimney stack.

Anywhoo, the exterior brick is rotting away. At the start of each
summer, I find small chunks o' brick on my deck, which I suppose were
actually fractured off by water/winter freeze, and then the heat and
wind of summer(house faces a lake - wind gusts are sometimes quite
severe and lasts for hours, and the back of the house has a SW
exposure, and gets lots of heat in the summer).

Anyway.... is there something to seal the bricks with, or should I just
let it continue to rot and let the insurance cover it when it
collapses? I think it will probably last another 10 years, but it seems
the spring/summer chunk o brick pile grows larger each year.

Thanks


This is Turtle.

The Mortar Forker or brick manson who built the chimney did not use the right
ratio of sand to Mortar mix to hold up. Sounds like a little too much sand. This
goes back to the Mortar Forker who built it.

TURTLE