{"id":924,"date":"2013-02-26T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=924"},"modified":"2013-02-27T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:42:28","slug":"re-pointing-stonework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/re-pointing-stonework\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-pointing Stonework, fiddly bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the scaffolding has been up the Stuff Doer has taken advantage and started replacing the cement pointing (ribbon pointing) on the front stonework. The pointing, although not in good shape and wasn’t on our priority list but cement mortar does the stone no good. Also working at height on a ladder on a very narrow street with no pavement is perhaps not considered best practice as far as the dreaded ‘elf and safety is concerned!<\/p>\n

Many hours have been spent raking out the cement pointing and replaced with lime mortar (NHL3.5). It’s far from finished but the difficult scary high stuff is done. I’m sure the Stuff Doer will explain why cement is bad and lime better and\u00a0fill in all the practical details\u00a0when he’s time (ie not up a skinny scaffold with bucket and trowel)<\/p>\n

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Before - Ribbon pointing on soft sandstone blocks, causing accelerated deterioration<\/p><\/div>\n

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After : re-pointed sandstone wall useing lime based mortar<\/p><\/div>\n

With the front re-pointed, the back re-rendered, windows repaired and a new roof plus guttering we should be water tight and drying out.<\/div>\n
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damage to stone by ribbon pointing<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If\u00a0anyone asks,\u00a0Why\u00a0we’re getting rid of the ribbon? or What’s wrong with ribbon pointing? Show them the above picture that illustrates how pointing with Ordinary Portland Cement\u00a0accelerates the deterioration\u00a0of the surrounding stone.\u00a0 It also looks a bit naff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the scaffolding has been up the Stuff Doer has taken advantage and started replacing the cement pointing (ribbon pointing) on the front stonework. The pointing, although not in good shape and wasn’t on our priority list but cement mortar does the stone no good. Also working at height on a ladder on a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,192,206],"tags":[339,201,303,304,31,343,205,342,346,345,344,207],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","category-ido-property-stuff","category-otherhalfstuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-cement","tag-cottage","tag-lime","tag-pointing","tag-property","tag-re-pointing","tag-renovation","tag-repointing","tag-ribbon-pointing","tag-sandstone","tag-stone","tag-whitby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}