{"id":698,"date":"2015-04-28T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2015-04-28T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:06:59","slug":"pointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/pointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to get the hang of re-pointing with lime mortar.\u00a0\u00a0 The pointing on the south gable was eroded to a depth of around 10-15mm and needs to be raked out and replaced.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a local sharp sand which appears to match the original sand very well.\u00a0 It is a plastering sharp sand from nearby Leighton Buzzard and contains aggregate up to 2mm. \u00a0\u00a0 The sharp sand I was using last year was concreting sand with a max aggregate size of 5mm which is much too big for bricks.<\/p>\n<p>So far I haven&#8217;t found anyone to re-point the house but the job is taking me too long to be sensible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pointing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pointing-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"pointing\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pointing-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pointing-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pointing.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to get the hang of re-pointing with lime mortar.\u00a0\u00a0 The pointing on the south gable was eroded to a depth of around 10-15mm and needs to be raked out and replaced. I&#8217;ve found a local sharp sand which appears to match the original sand very well.\u00a0 It is a plastering sharp sand from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}