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Reply To: | BP - "Is this the list with all the ivy haters?" |
Date: | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:00:15 EST |
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OK, I actually have a question.
A lovely church in the area recently had a fieldstone wall repointed. The
wall probably dates to the late 1860's-- irregular coursed, rubble stone,
probably quarried from the local quaries in town-- about 3' high.
The repointing job looks like crap. The original joints are much neater,
probably measuring about 3/4 of an inch to an inch in most places (that's
just a guess), with a nice bead; whereas, the new mortar color doesn't match,
and the joints are much, much thicker-- sort of smeared/feathered the mortar
up over the stone, I imagine.
Does anyone have any thoughts or comments on the likelyhood of this
repointing job actually harming the wall? Crappy aesthetics aside, I doubt
there was any attempt to figure out how the original mortar was formulated.
-Heidi
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