In my last post I talked about the initial stages needed to tuck-point. This post will outline the clean up stage. See photos below. Here my mason is spraying a solution of water and muriatic acid on new mortar. It is necessary to wait a few weeks as the mortar needs...
A customer’s home needed some tuckpointing work. Below are some photos that describe how we did it. If you look to the right of the security camera you can see some cracks in the tuckpointing. Some bricks were literally falling out. These blades attach to a...
My wife wanted me to hang some fun signs on two doors in our lower level. The problem was that the doors are hollow-core and are only 5/16th of an inch thick. You can’t screw something into them and expect that solution to work. Here are some easy tips to get a...
A friend of mine’s wife needed a grab bar, and he asked me for assistance. His concern was that he couldn’t find the studs in the bathroom wall due to the heavy stone tiles in his shower. Installing a grab bar is a simple process and it is possible, in...
If you have a basement in the Midwest it is likely that you have a sump pump. Most Midwestern homes utilize drain tiles to keep ground water out of the basement. Those tiles drain into a pit, which is then pumped out locally. Typically, this water is not allowed to be...
