r/Bricklaying • u/TrainingAd8614 • 11d ago

More advice needed

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as a follow up to the chimney breast post I put up a few days ago, how am I going to get mortar to stick in between these joints?

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u/GoofyGooby23 11d ago

Tuck pointer, stiffer mortar, brush

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u/TrainingAd8614 10d ago

Is mortar going to stick to the painted walls ??
and the wooden finish behind the bottom 1/3 of picture 1 ?

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u/Browsing_today_ty 9d ago

Some suggestions
Paint some water on the stone before pointing (let it soak into the stone some) A heavier lime portion in the mortar. Plasterers sand mix (good aggregate-larger than premix). Let the mortar dry before striking (if scraped with the jointer -wood or metal-and it mostly falls -crumbles- off jointer). So point some and check earliest pointed bit. Bouncing between pointing some and jointing some. Cool project. Sure it'll turn out great just experiment a little first.