{"id":475,"date":"2014-01-10T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:32:18","slug":"bricks-bricks-bricks-driving-me-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Bricks.. Bricks.. Bricks – Driving Me Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Green is what is done… Red still needs to be done.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m finishing up the first half of our brick pointing project this week. \u00a0I’m ready for this pointing to be over. \u00a0Unfortunately, I’m only halfway there. \u00a0Pointing really isn’t that bad other than it being hard on my body. \u00a0As long as I’ve got my tunes on, I pretty much forget I’m doing it. \u00a0I’m just ready to move onto other things like trim. \u00a0Also it makes a mess throughout the house.<\/p>\n

I’ve saved the best for last. I needed the surrounding bricks to be strong enough to hold themselves up when I took out nearly everything from the floor to the ceiling. \u00a0I’ve been careful to leave a pyramid un-pointed from the door lintel up to the window frame.<\/p>\n

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The bricks here are basically falling out of the wall. \u00a0The lower bonding bricks on top of the lintel are actually sitting on 2″ of crumbling mortar.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the end I removed all bricks not in a bonding course from the door lintel to the window frame. \u00a0I used a jack to lift up the treated 4×6. \u00a0Now the bricks sit right on it rather than on 2″ of crumbling mortar.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bricks<\/a>

Here is the same area finished. \u00a0Bricks sit directly on the lintel and it all looks WAY stronger.<\/p><\/div>\n

To finish the 2nd + 3rd floor stairway, all I need to finish up is the doorway. \u00a0After that we’ll use some acid to take off the mortar haze and then seal it up… then on to the 1st + 2nd floor stairway. \u00a0So tired of pointing bricks.<\/p>\n

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I’m finishing up the first half of our brick pointing project this week. \u00a0I’m ready for this pointing to be …<\/p>\n

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