hademall
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So I've lived at this address for over five years now, and on the property is an old basalt rock building (some may refer to it as blue stone,) which is over a hundred years old, it was used as a farm building of sorts and apparently the family lived in it up until such time they built the house we now live in.
As you can see by the Photo it was in such a poor state, so I decided to do something about it.
My first job was to re-point the stone work. Being a bricklayer amongst other things, (Yes I've had lots of jobs) I was conscious of using a lime and sand aggregate mortar, knowing that a cement based mortar is damaging.
You see, cement mortar locks in moisture and doesn't allow the stone work to breath.
Attached is a before and after pic.
As you can see by the Photo it was in such a poor state, so I decided to do something about it.
My first job was to re-point the stone work. Being a bricklayer amongst other things, (Yes I've had lots of jobs) I was conscious of using a lime and sand aggregate mortar, knowing that a cement based mortar is damaging.
You see, cement mortar locks in moisture and doesn't allow the stone work to breath.
Attached is a before and after pic.