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Posted by ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy on June 24, 2005, 3:31 pm
Americans have no clue when it comes to poiting brick or stone. The finest
masons are always french.
Good source for tools is www.bontools.com or www.marshalltown.com
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Troweller^nospam^@canada.com
Remove the obvious to reply. Experienced and reliable
Concrete Finishing and Synthetic Stucco application in the GTA.
> This may be heresy but I used a screwdriver. Did the whole outside of
> the brick foundation that way, gosh, like 15 years ago, still looks
> fine.
>
> The 'real' way is with a chisel like device and grinding tools if I
> recall this Old House correctly (from back when they showed you how to
> do things, not how to build 10 million dollar room additions).
>
> Key is to get down to clean brick and what's left of the stable, clean,
> dry mortar. The proper way also creates a shape in the existing mortar
> that helps hold on to the new mortar.
>
> But me, I'd use a flat head screwdriver, brush it out, and cram the
> mortar in there.
>
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