Hi Folks,
Sorry guys I haven't posted for a while I have been so busy with the house I haven't had time. These are the most up to date photos I have but I have done alot more work since they were taken. Normaly I get home at the weekend and its a race to see how much work I can get done before I run out of time then I'm not in the mood to do the blog.
There was a small crack in the tanking in the corner of the wall where the damp woulf come in and so would worms and things. What I though was a large stone in this coener that the line pointing have been wash away from, turned out to be two mouldy bricks that crumbled away when I started to rake out what was let of the mortar. All the mortar had been washed away and the joints were full of mud. I removed all the loose stone and mud until I got back to solid mortar.
This left a very large hole that went back over two feet I could put my arm in it upto the shoulder. I wash down all the stone work and the stones I had removed from the wall. I then started to rebuild the wall with line mortart and stone from the inside out replacing the bricks I had removed with stone from the garden. There is lumps of it everywhere.
I have repaired this part of the wall and raked out and repointed to above the level of the tanking about four feet. I will post some photos of this next week.
I have also soursed some stone from a guy near by who got it for a building project but don't need it now.
Thats about if folks.
KBO
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