When planning your latest home improvement, it is crucial to choose the best concrete to ensure a successful project. With every home improvement project comes the need for the right tools and the best materials. This is especially true when planning a project involving concrete, as an inferior concrete or …
Removing Mold from Bricks
Whether your home is constructed with bricks or you have brick accents likes walls, walkways, or stairs, you’ve likely seen mold at one time or another. Black, green, or blue, mold can thrive anywhere moisture remains for any length of time. Mold can form quickly, growing on virtually any brickwork, …
Repointing or Replacing?
As crucial part of your property, not only aesthetically, but often structurally, your brickwork should be regularly checked for signs of deterioration or failure. While some issues are on the surface, others are fundamental to the structure. Examining your brick regularly will indicate whether repointing or replacing is needed. Ensuring …
The Benefits of a Brick Exterior
Brick is well-loved as a building material which offers timeless beauty, along with durability, longevity, and low maintenance for homes and buildings. Brick structures date back thousands of years, with their earliest appearances in Turkey around 7000 B.C. The first bricks were clay blocks hardened in the sun and valued …
Masonry Explained
As one of the world’s most well-known and timeworn construction methods, masonry is often misunderstood. By definition, masonry is any stonework structure or building in which materials – bricks, concrete blocks, stones, and the like – are bound and connected with the aid of mortar. A paste type of cement, …