Horizontal and Vertical Cracks in Brick/External - Between Side Door and Porch
Need some opinions, please. We've just started the process of doing a lot of exterior work to our house and today we discovered a couple of cracks in the brick mortar from outside. As you will see in the picture, the cracks are directly underneath our side door which also has a side porch. What do we do here? Is this serious? We do not see cracks anywhere else.
Mortar repair is called tuck pointing. First you grind or chip out as much old mortar as you reasonably can without damaging the brick. Then with mortar mix and a tuck pointing trowel you push new mortar into the joint. Before it dries you tool it with a curved brick striker/jointer.
I spilled the grease trap on my grill that's by the pool today, and now I've got this dark brown grease all over the place. What is the best way to clean this up? I was able to sop up most of it with paper towels.
HI all
Any thoughts what that could be? House is from 1946. The floor behind the red line is leveled, but at front of the line starts raising up. There is some weird copper tube inside the crack that serves no apparent purpose.
I was just thinking to cut of this triangle portion and re-pour. Worried though about support column. About a foot away from it is where I was planning to make the cut
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04-11-21, 01:08 PM
