For the last several days, after work hours, I’ve been prepping the crawl space under the 100+ year old house brick and stone foundation for tuck pointing. Much of the work requires a heavy duty blower to push the dust out of the crawl space. I am wearing a heavy duty full face respirator while doing this project.
The goal of tuckpointing the brick and stone foundation is to maintain the foundation’s strength and stability over the next several decades. Im hoping for a solid 40 years. With that in mind, I not doing a patch job but a full repoint. It is dirty work, but it would be far too pricey to have a contractor do it for me this year. I have many other projects down there that require the foundation to be cleaned up first.
I have one more day of mortar removal and cleanup before I bring my wife down to help tuck point the brickwork. I’m hoping she gets a bug for it and wants to help finish the stone work too, as that’s the most arduous portion of the project to be done.
