A friend has repointed the chimneys, but there are still a few small
cracks of a few mm. Ice could get in and crack them open eventually.
Is there something I can squeeze in?
Something in a tube like Hard as Nails?

[g]

george [dicegeorge] wrote:
A friend has repointed the chimneys, but there are still a few small
cracks of a few mm. Ice could get in and crack them open eventually.
Is there something I can squeeze in?
Something in a tube like Hard as Nails?

[g]
any ideas?
We havnt the time to smash out the cracked pointing,
would squirting in something like hard-as-nails
cut down on water penetration, ice cracking etc?

[g]

On Feb 26, 7:39*pm, "george [dicegeorge]"
wrote:
george [dicegeorge] wrote:
A friend has repointed the chimneys, but there are still a few small
cracks of a few mm. Ice could get *in and crack them open eventually.
Is there something I can squeeze in?
Something in a tube like Hard as Nails?

[g]

any ideas?
We havnt the time to smash out the cracked pointing,
would squirting in something like hard-as-nails
cut down on water penetration, ice cracking etc?

[g]

Lime putty would work, but need to be applied twice as it shrinks on
drying. Its just bagged builder's lime mixed with water to make a
paste. It should be possible to get ordinary cement mortar in though,
and where the crack's too small even for that, to use it to cover it
with. Use fine sand maybe.


NT

NT wrote:
On Feb 26, 7:39 pm, "george [dicegeorge]"
wrote:
george [dicegeorge] wrote:
A friend has repointed the chimneys, but there are still a few small
cracks of a few mm. Ice could get in and crack them open eventually.
Is there something I can squeeze in?
Something in a tube like Hard as Nails?
[g]
any ideas?
We havnt the time to smash out the cracked pointing,
would squirting in something like hard-as-nails
cut down on water penetration, ice cracking etc?

[g]

Lime putty would work, but need to be applied twice as it shrinks on
drying. Its just bagged builder's lime mixed with water to make a
paste. It should be possible to get ordinary cement mortar in though,
and where the crack's too small even for that, to use it to cover it
with. Use fine sand maybe.


NT

Exterior Polyfilla maybe? It's a cement based powder, probably combined
with an acrylic, but it's certainly fine enough to get into small cracks
and stay there.