The angle helps to spread out the mortar mix into the mortar crack between the bricks. The Quikrete tube fits into a regular caulking gun that you can get for about $15.

If you don’t have tuckpointing done on damaged mortar, eventually water may enter the wall between the bricks, causing more mortar decay, moisture problems, and problems with the structure’s ...

Dear James: The mortar between the wall bricks is crumbling in spots and looks bad. How can I repair it so that it does not look much different from the existing mortar joints? — Nick R. Dear ...

Over time, the mortar joints between bricks in a wall, also known as pointing, will fail. Fixing this failure is called repointing, or in some regions tuckpointing.

If you’re repairing brick in an old building built in the late 1800s or even early 1900s, the original brick masons probably used hydrated lime. This differs from the modern bags of brick mortar ...

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