A reader recently emailed me, seeking advice on whether to take on a do-it-yourself repair of the mortar around her brick masonry. She regularly performs hands-on maintenance around her home, she said ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Do you know what “repointing” bricks means? By definition, it consists of “removing a portion of the deteriorated mortar and redoing the joints with new mortar.” Doing that basically ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) – Scaffolding still surrounds a downtown Auburn apartment complex protecting pedestrians from falling bricks nearly ten months after loose bricks were discovered on the exterior of ...

LISA CESTKOWSKI Daily Citizen Aug 9, 2016 Aug 9, 2016 0 COLUMBUS — Hermanson Concrete and Masonry will begin removing the loose and crumbling bricks and mortar from the Chapel Street water tower this ...

The 60-year-old Mobile Civic Center’s bricks are loose above the theater’s roof, and 35 tons are at risk of collapsing. A pressing question now looms: Is anyone at risk of getting hurt inside the ...