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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...