What is Tuckpointing?
When a brick home has deteriorated mortar, tuckpointing enhances and restores through the act of filling the joints with closely matched new mortar and putty. There are certain masonry terms that can help you understand the tuckpointing process:
- Pointing - In new construction, pointing refers to the actual mortar joints and the filling of the spaces between the bricks in a finished wall.
- Repointing - when a mason removes the old, worn out mortar and replaces it with fresh, new mortar.
- Tuckpointing - Matching the color of the mortar with the building’s bricks, and replacing the old mortar with this new, matching mortar. Typically, tuckpointing involves embedding “fillets”, (narrow lines of putty) in a contrasting color down the middle of the new mortar joints.
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