How To Repoint Old Brickwork - The Easy Way With No Experience

great job good insight

Can you make a video of how to use a pointed trowel in awkward areas and ontop of big holes like boiler flues ontop of expansion foam for beginners but tidy

Your repointed joints look a bit deeper than the original is that on purpose or just for demonstration?

Nice video and thanks for sharing! 👏 😊❤

У бре пријатељу ти да радиш на дневницу имао би милионе.....Фугерица, лонче и тачна и удри.

hmmm, the easy way with no experience would be a buy and use a mortar gun rather than try to master pushing in by trowel.

A great lesson in how to ruin your own house😂

why not get a mortar pointing gun and make your life easy

Why doesn't anybody use a slicker? The entire length of a slicker (trowel) is about 17cm X about 10mm. Will still need a striker but you will finish in half the time with very little mess. from USA

Wonderful bless you

“Knock off all the snots with a brush” 😂 thats me leaving little bits around the joints! great video. This reassured me i can repoint my old front garden wall albeit very slowly like a rookie 😅

Perfect thanks for this I have a massive area to do on the side of my house so will be giving it a go 💪

We are the martyrs your just smashed tomatos 😂

So the rectangle cave line mustache is still in play? You get my point?😂

Oh dear...

Thanks, really useful. Just wondering. When doing the jointing and need to add a bit of mortar. Is that fresh mortar, or mortar that has gone off a bit?

Thank you so much for sharing and explaining in a very simple way. Great job

this would be far quicker and tidy'er with a tuck trowel....

can you use the finishing tool on lime mortar?

Brick laying for 30 years your be quicker with slightly stiffer mortar

thank you very useful

No comment about the technique, but you should never replace lime mortar (which is what is behind the cracked cement mortar) with another cement mortar, this will crack again in no time and while doing it damage the faces of the brick as well. So this is not a correct video. Please research historical buildings and materials to be used more! For everyone reading this who have an old building with old bricks - please look into lime mortar and only use it to correctly save your buildings from decaying further.

You didn't explain how to do the upright ones lol they are the hard ones for me

It's nice to see a tradesman that can actually do pointing correctly. I live in Northumberland and it is just about impossible to find somebody who can do pointing correctly.

i have quite a bit of places that need repointed..... was going to call someone.... maybe i will do it myself

gr8 vid

There is a tool called a tuckpointer for a reason.

So I need to repoint some brick. I understand everything but the rooms beneath my front porch need repointed from the inside as well. What should I do in this case where I have weak mortar on both sides? Good video. Thanks!

Thanks buddy! This will help me with my mums kitchen 😊

simply life changing ive pointed the wall, wife and kids. i even lay my sausages side by side and point the gaps with my mash. I'm totally hooked

Always do the Perps first

Thanks for this video. I have some spots where there are holes in the pointing. Any advice on how to fill those? I’m a complete beginner. Thanks!

British shacks. LOL

It will stain the front of the brick more easily if the face is still quite wet..

Use a grout bag you'll be done by now

Snots?? You joking me?

Soft mortar is good. Don’t use cement mortar which is too hard for old bricks.

I love the amount of remedial work these types of videos generate, after people have had a go and made a complete mess 👍

nice flexible yelllow bucket. you have a link for it?

Your life is so perfect that you dug a hole just to fill it up again? Congratulations! What was wrong with the mortar at the start?
(ps great video otherwise)

You make it look so very easy. Thank you.

I have my entire house to repoint. It will probably take about 5 years to do the job, if I do it like you did.

Thank you for a clear, concise and easil-understandable video. I love the word "snots" 😄

The jointed mortar edge looks immensely better than the troweled edge.

How do you do the vertical bits

How much of a wall should I do at the same time?. I have a whole garden wall to do, should I take out all of it or do a small patch at a time

Can you advise how you colour match to old mortar. I have an external door that requires bricking up. No one seems to have an answer to this question. Many thanks for the video.

ive been doing this the last two days on my mums house and still got so much to do down the ally inbetween my house and next door wth the doors going into each garden... and ive used a trowel to pick up the morter and then just used my fingers with a plastic glove bag on my hand and pushing it in with my fingers and then scraping upwards to catch the excess lol its worked fine for me though and it's even with the front of the house. Some of it is a bit lobsided by nothing a good wire brush scrubbing won't fix.

This is the true DIY way LOL

Total rubbish if you struggling to pick it up off a trowel use a hod 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😍🤣