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Cleaning Brick Without Destroying the Face
I’ve spent forty-three years watching men ruin perfectly good masonry because they thought a bit…
Category: Masonry
8 min
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Insulating Internally and Moving the Dew Point
I spent forty-three years on site watching people try to fix problems by layering things…
10 min
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Cracked Brick Walls: Why Your Patch Job Is Just a Mask for a Deeper Problem
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve stood in a customer’s garden, looking at…
8 min
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Ewi Detailing Around Openings
I’ve spent forty-three years watching men try to fix problems that weren’t actually there, usually…
8 min
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Sand Cement, Lime and Monocouche Compared
I spent thirty years watching salesmen in clean high-vis vests try to convince homeowners that…
11 min
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Render Fails When the Background Is Wrong
I spent thirty years watching lads get excited about the brand of sand or the…
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Stop Obsessing Over the Surface: Why Maintaining Old Limestone Masonry in Residential Homes Fails When You Ignore What’s Happening Behind the Stone.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve walked up to a beautiful old property…
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Stop Obsessing Over the Surface: Why Your Patterns Will Crack if You Ignore the Traditional Techniques for Laying Decorative Brick Patterns.
I spent thirty years watching young lads and over-eager homeowners obsess over the “fancy” bit—the…
7 min
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Stop Obsessing Over the Stones and Start Choosing the Right Mortar for Stone Work—because the Bond Is Won or Lost in the Mix, Not the Placement.
I was standing on a job site in North Yorkshire last autumn, watching a lad…
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Underpinning in Sequenced Bays
I remember standing in a muddy trench back in ’94, watching a lad try to…