Replacing Outer Skin of Bricks - Extension
Replacing Outer Skin of Bricks - Extension
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for advice please.
My bungalow includes a hideous early 70s extension. They used metric bricks instead of imperial, a non matching colour, a nasty cheap looking brick and the mortar joints are terrible. A lot of it is virtually sand that disintegrates if you run your finger along it.
Now, I could get the whole thing repointed. It'll still look rather ugly though. I could get it rendered although that has shortcomings as well. Rendering would technically need...
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by John Smith Esq.
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Replacing Outer Skin of Bricks - Extension
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for advice please.
My bungalow includes a hideous early 70s extension. They used metric bricks instead of imperial, a non matching colour, a nasty cheap looking brick and the mortar joints are terrible. A lot of it is virtually sand that disintegrates if you run your finger along it.
Now, I could get the whole thing repointed. It'll still look rather ugly though. I could get it rendered although that has shortcomings as well. Rendering would technically need...
Read more
by John Smith Esq.
This has been automatically posted in the DIYNot Forum on DIY Talk. The new DIY Forum