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repointing loft wall

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:29 pm
by marcus02
I live in a terraced house. the mortar of the party walls in the loft are crumbling. Should I use cement or lime mortar to repoint. House was built in early 1900s

Re: repointing loft wall

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:31 am
by welsh brickie
use a mix of 4 sand 1 lime 1 cement

Re: repointing loft wall

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:38 pm
by marcus02
I was going to use some lafarge pre mixed which is

6 sand 1 lime 1 cement

Would this be okay to use?

Re: repointing loft wall

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:02 pm
by marcus02
Could I use lafarge pre mixed mortar

its 6 sand 1 lime 1 cement?

Re: repointing loft wall

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:21 am
by welsh brickie
thats fine