Sand is the most abundant ingredient in the mix. The powdered cement and lime are the glue that holds the sand together and allows the mortar to bond to each brick (or concrete block, stone or other ...

Newport's Grade II listed Civic Centre building is set to undergo repairs after an application was granted with conditions by the council.

An engineering assessment of the Bennington Monument poses a challenge not unlike the one that drew hundreds of Patriots to ...

Tuckpointing is a fairly common practice that involves freshening up the mortar joints between bricks. But what exactly does tuckpointing entail and how does it differ from repointing? Here ...

Over time, the mortar joints between bricks in a wall, also known as pointing, will fail. Fixing this failure is called repointing, or in some regions tuckpointing. Your job, or that of the ...

A restoration project that brought a derelict Grade II listed building in Lancaster back into residential use has scooped a prestigious national award.

The council has received an application from Copernus Ltd., a Hull-based company that supplies fresh fish to supermarkets ...

There are numerous ways to preserve and use aging facilities beyond just seeing them become pieces of commercial real estate.