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Advice needed on repointing bricks with chipped edges
This seems like a very basic question to me but i am struggling to find an answer.
When repointing a wall and the bricks have chipped edges, the mortar naturally gets squeezed into the chipped edges (when i follow all the videos online anyway). This result in it looking like this (ignore everything but the mortar in the edge chips, this was my very rushed first ever attempt):
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When i repointed another bit of wall, the mortar was too dry so it did not end up getting squished into the chips, like this:
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So, ignoring everything but the mortar in the chips at the edge vs not in the chips at the edge, which is the correct way it should be done?
Cheers
u/Spetznaaz — 2 days ago