RS BRICKWORK
Rs brickwork has been trading for a number of years
and with over 25 years experience in the building industry, we can assure all are customers old and new,
the work we carry out will be done according to the customers requirements, and with the customers approval at all times , any size of contract small or large it could be a damp area of 1 meter square, in a private home, to a complete listed building renovation.
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SETTLEMENT CRACKS REPAIRED
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BAD BRICKS REMOVED AND REPLACED
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SMALL UNSIGHTLY AREAS OF POINTING
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CLEANED AND REPOINTED
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ANY MINOR REPAIRS
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NATURAL HYDRAULIC LIME RENDERING
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CHIMNEY REPAIR
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CRACK STITCHING
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LIME REPOINTING
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WE USE LIME PRODUCTS SUPPLIED BY www.telling.co.uk
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LIME PLASTERING
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CHIMNEY REPOINTING
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PENETRATING DAMP CURED
R S BRICKWORK
13 ERNEST STREET
CREWE
CHESHIRE
CW2 6JF
Tel Home: 01270584015
Mobile: 07866674738
Lime repointing
Natural Hydraulic Lime
Victorian walled Garden , Grade 11 * Listed in Shropshire
only 3 remaining in England, detailed chimneys built in the wall
so that fires can be lit in the winter months warming the wall via voids built in the wall
similar to flues in a normal chimney stack, originally there was 3 chimneys but now only 1 remaining
work carried out to stabilize the wall and stop any further damage occuring
replacing bad bricks, and raking out and repointing
brick replacement
Garden Wall, Tarvin near Chester
the wall needed a lot of rebuilding in parts , but now restored to its original state lime mortar will help keep the brickwork dry
by letting it breath and dry out , before repointing the wall was constantly wet
Rebuilding and repointing a 150 year old wall
Damp internal walls can be due the wall not being able to breath and in nearly all cases
not rising damp , similar on the outside with spalled bad bricks if cement pointing as been used on soft very old porous bricks
Many older properties were built without a damp proof course. They were
constructed in such a way that allows moisture to both enter and leave the materials
the opposite of modern construction techniques and materials that are sealed against
moisture , if older properties are unable to breathe they can suffer from damp problems
causing mould, fungi , dry and wet rot
Most pre- 1930 buildings were built with lime and should therefore ideally be pointed
with lime , cement pointing is very hard and because of its lack of flexibility it will crack
over time when used in old properties , as the walls move and try to breathe
Once cement pointing cracks it allows water to get into the structure of the building
without letting it escape again or evaporate this leads to damp problems
We have plenty of experience in removing cement pointing and replacing with lime
It is a job that must be done with great care ,so the other building materials such as
brick or stone are not damaged
Work carried out on a cottage at Tilstock Cheshire
the building was restricted in its breathability due to the paint which was a modern
acrylic based , and not a lime paint, this combined with the problem of the cement
re- pointing done on the property ,
we needed to get the existing paint off and then remove the cement pointing
after replacing numerous damaged bricks we then repointed in NHL lime
Barn Conversations at Market Drayton (Shropshire)
In total we did over 400 m2 of lime repointing to 3 large
Converted Barns at Tern Hill
work included repair work to Sandstone door plinths
repointing and rendering work carried out in
North Wales on a large estate house
chimneys repointed using NHL5 Lime mortar
hard dense cement mortars should never be used on structures with soft pourus bricks
lime mortar allows the structure to breath and lets the moisture migrate from the walls
through the lime mortar joints, keeping the walls dry and free from damp
repointing in lime mortar, allowing the structure
to breath, lime mortar the traditional methods for the earlier built structures ,
if you have signs of damp in your older built period property please call for some free advice and information, on the benefits of using traditional lime mortar , for repointing , lime render and internal lime plastering
Shropshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire
and other locations covered including Alderly Edge, Wilmslow
Knutsford,Whitchurch,Northwich,Chester
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