Leland Torrence wrote:
> where to find materials.
Leland,

I am reminded of the Church of the Ascension in Brooklyn, Williamsburg, 
associated with the builder of the USS Monitor. We wanted to match the 
aggregate in the mortar which was a dark sand, not like the predominant 
yellow sand found on the remainder of Long Island (keep in mind Brooklyn 
is on Long Island). So we were buying sand at $25.00 a bag from NJ. That 
also meant we had to send someone to drive out to NJ to get the bags of 
sand. We were fortunate that we did not need a whole lot of sand, and 
costs and logistics like this help to restrict repointing to 'as needed' 
rather than the occasional recommendation of wholesale 100%. Later in 
the project a plumber had to do an excavation and we found all of the 
wonderful perfectly matching dark sand under our feet.

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