mortar

When I moved house 2 years ago, I wanted to wire a couple of rooms up with ethernet. One of the rooms was my man cave, which is part of an extension that was done long before I moved. I decided I would need to run the cables through the attic to the man cave, but there was a problem; the brick...

Hi there, I'm trying to fit an old cast iron fireplace in my Victorian house. So far, I have replaced the builder's arch with a concrete lintel (the floor level is apparently a few inches higher now than when the house was built, so I needed a few extra inches for the insert. I've also removed...

Long story short - last year, bees took up residence in my nice sunny south-facing wall, right next to my bedroom. Noisy things they were too, but just had to wait for the little blighters to go (didn't even leave me any honey to say thanks). I need to get something done about it before they...

I have uncovered a large red sandstone fireplace (about 2 meters wide and a meter deep). It had been infilled with a large amount of bricks and cement. The stones at the back of the hearth are in very poor condition and in places have brushed away completely, exposing the concrete harl on the...

Hello everyone, I am planning to start using an old fireplace and I am a little worried that the mortar lining around the chimney and on the back wall could contain asbestos. It is fairly brittle and it didn't take very much for a piece of the lining to come off unintentionally when I was...

There was a big crack and hole in the plaster of our chimney breast so my wife started hacking at it and things escalated haha - My main concern is the archway section. It seems to be concreted up, is this usually to support the archway itself or maybe its just an aesthetic patch to square off...

Hi, I need to point certain stones within our chimney breast walls in the loft to try and cut down on drafts as I use it as an office. The areas which need pointing are very inaccessible gaps between stones. What's the best way to point them? (mortar gun?!) and with what? (given the walls are...

Hello, Im making our builders opening smaller in order to install a gas fireplace, by installing a steel lintel (as concrete will crack) and bricking up the hole above. However Im confused about what mortar to use! The DIY store sold me a bag of "Natural Mortar" which apparently contains lime...

Hiya, I am planning to lay brick slips on my fireplace (stove) and would like to have white colour for grout. Is there any white mortar product, which is heatproof that i could use for the fireplace? Or should i call it a white fire cement? Thanks,

Hi I have had some structural work done and inevitably the mortar on the new parts of the wall are brighter and more yellow than the original mortar which has the best part of 50 years of grime and weathering. I was told by a guy who does pointing that there is a product on the market that can...