Water, snow and ice erode both brick and mortar. Perhaps the most damaging of the three is ice. Water that soaks into the mortar between brick can and does freeze. Water expands as it freezes and this ...

PITTSBURGH, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create an improved tuck pointer bladed tool for masonry contractors," said one of two inventors, from Camby, Ind., "so we invented the PIVOT ...

Burglars stole a set of tuckpointing tools recently from a vehicle owned by the company renovating Glen Ellyn’s Village Hall. The thieves apparently pried open a window on a Holton Brothers Inc. truck ...

Pointing is the process of creating the mortar joints between bricks in a piece of brickwork. When old mortar is partially removed and replaced, this is called repointing. If you’ve looked closely at ...