[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Rupert! What were you thinking?
Child Of Midian
md at exit-reality.com
Thu Oct 8 21:57:51 UTC 2009
You don't replace the cement, it's simply a refacing. It's more like
grouting tile, you just scrape or sand-blast the mortar then apply a surface
layer of cement and strike the joints. All brick structures need it
eventually, it's inevitable that some of the cement will crack and come
apart, all buildings settle, all cement and concrete wears down under the
elements. Stone faced buildings need it as well.
md
-----Original Message-----
Miles:
I do not think you have to worry. There are many brick buildings in my home
town which are much older than 40 years, and I never heard that the cement
had to be replaced..
This one
http://www.schoenes-deutschland-in-bildern.de/gelsenkirchen_ehem_postgebaude
.jpg
is about 100 years old, and believe me, it does not fall apart ;).
Miles, who really does not think that millennia of human brick experience
lead to crumbling buildings all over the world
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