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Chimney Tuckpointing by Local Jacksonville Masons

Worn mortar joints raked out and repacked to suit your brick. Our local family masons start with a free joint inspection.

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Why choose us

Mortar is meant to wear before the brick does, and repointing at the right time saves the brick. We are a family business, and our masons rake each failed joint to depth, refill it with mortar matched to your brick in hardness and color, and leave the sound joints alone. Every face gets its own written price up front, and we knock 10% off when you book within 72 hours of the survey. Call (904) 920-5495 to book a free inspection of your joints.

Repointing by the family that mixes the mortar

  • Locally owned in Jacksonville
  • Family owned and operated
  • 100% satisfaction guaranteed
  • Free inspection and estimate
  • Same-day service available
  • 10% off any service
  • Family owned and operatedThe family masons who map your joints also mix and pack the mortar, so the color match stays in the same hands.
  • Upfront pricing, no hidden feesEach face of the chimney gets its own written price, so the worst sides can go first if you choose.
  • Workmanship warrantyOur workmanship warranty stands behind every joint we repoint.
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Chimney tuckpointing, joint by joint

Sandy, recessed joints are the early warning on a brick chimney. Chimney tuckpointing rakes that tired mortar out to a sound depth and packs in fresh mortar your brick can live with, which is what repointing means on a chimney. Our local, family-owned masonry pros handle it as part of chimney masonry repair, and the first step is a free inspection of the joints.

  • Sandy, recessed joints raked out to sound depth
  • Mortar type picked to suit your brick
  • Joint color matched with a cured test batch
  • Caulk and smear patches cut away before repointing
  • Chimney mortar joint repair only on the faces that need it, priced face by face
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Repointing on a brick chimney

A gloved hand presses fresh mortar into raked-out joints of red brick with a pointing trowel, beside a mortar hawk.

Four steps to sound mortar joints

  1. Tell us which sides look worn

    Call and describe where the mortar looks sandy or sunken. We set up a free joint check at a time that suits you.

  2. Every joint scratched and mapped

    The mason tests the joints on each face and marks the failed rows on a sketch, which becomes your written price.

  3. Raked deep, packed in lifts

    Failed mortar comes out to at least twice the joint width, head joints by hand. New mortar goes in thin layers, each firmed before the next.

  4. Tooled to match, cured slowly

    Joints are tooled to the profile around them, and the fresh mortar is kept from drying too fast for the first few days.

10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection

Repointing counts face by face when you book it in the 72 hours after we survey the joints.

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Repoint, replace brick or rebuild the top?

Most calls about crumbling joints end in one of three jobs, and a scratch test on each face decides which.

What we findThe right fixWhat we also check
What we findJoints sandy or recessed, bricks soundThe right fixRake and repoint the failed jointsWhat we also checkJoint depth on every face, and the crown above
What we findBricks with flaking faces among the bad jointsThe right fixReplace those units, then repoint around themWhat we also checkWhere the water behind the flaking gets in
What we findLoose, rocking courses at the topThe right fixTake the top down and relay itWhat we also checkHow far down the mortar has turned to sand

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Mortar and sand for a lasting repoint

Mortar to ASTM C270
The standard sorts mortar into Types M, S, N and O, from hardest to softest. The type your brick can live with is written into your quote.
Softer than the brick
Preservation Brief 2 has new mortar softer and more vapor permeable than the brick, so stress and moisture leave through the joint instead of the brick face.
Sand chosen for color
Color comes mostly from the sand. A test batch cures against your old joints first, because mortar dries lighter than it looks in the bucket.
A repellent only where it helps
Once the mortar has cured, some chimneys take a vapor-permeable water repellent on the maker's schedule. The write-up says if yours needs one.

Joints mapped on the free inspection

  1. Which faces and courses need repointing, marked on a sketch of the stack
  2. The rake depth for each joint width, and how the head joints are cut
  3. The ASTM C270 mortar type and how its color is matched
  4. Spalled or cracked brick to replace before the joints around it
  5. Crown, flashing or cap defects found while we are on the roof, priced separately
  6. Roof protection, access and clean-up
  7. What can wait, and what to watch until then

Tuckpointing questions we hear

Can you repoint only the top of my chimney?

Yes, if the lower rows of brick are sound. The rows near the crown are exposed on every side, so we check them first, and the quote covers only the faces that need work.

How many days will tuckpointing take?

A chimney top is usually a short job from the roof, while the whole chimney takes longer. The estimate shows the days on site and any cure time before a fire.

Should I describe which joints look worn?

Yes. Tell us which faces look sandy or recessed when you call (904) 920-5495, using what you can see from a safe position. The free joint check starts with those concerns before the repointing scope is set.

Will the new mortar match my old joints?

Close enough to read as one wall. We mix a test batch, let it cure against your brick and adjust before the real work.

Does the price change once you start raking?

Not for the faces on the estimate. If raking shows a cracked brick we did not price, we stop and ask before replacing it.

Mortar problems our repointing specialists fix

  • Sand trickling out of the joints

    The mortar has lost its binder. We rake those joints back to sound mortar and repoint them before rain starts working on the brick.

  • Joints sunk well behind the brick

    Weather has eroded the mortar, so water sits on the brick edges. Recessed joints are raked square and refilled in thin layers.

  • Caulk smeared over old cracks

    A skim over unraked joints peels within a season and hides how far back the failure runs. We cut it out and repoint properly.

  • Cracks stepping up through the mortar

    A stair-step crack can be shrinkage or movement. We check the brick and the crown above before quoting the joints.

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A local mason scratches every face, marks the failed joints and writes down the repoint before any mortar is mixed.

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Tuckpointing and repointing on a chimney

Strictly, tuckpointing is a decorative finish, a thin ribbon of contrasting mortar laid over flush joints. When people ask for tuckpointing a chimney, though, they almost always mean repointing. Repointing a chimney means raking worn mortar out to a set depth and rebuilding the joint with fresh mortar.

Neither word covers the smear job, where mortar or caulk is buttered over cracked joints without raking them. The thin skin has nothing behind it to grip, so it peels away, and while it lasts it hides how far back the old joint has failed.

Why chimney mortar is meant to wear first

A brick chimney is two materials doing different jobs. The brick carries the load and sheds the weather. The mortar keeps the courses in line, takes up small movements from heat and settling, and gives moisture inside the wall a path back out. Because the joint is the softer of the two, it wears first by design, and a joint left open for years is where brick damage starts.

How deep chimney repointing goes

For chimney repointing, Preservation Brief 2 sets the depth by the width of the joint. Old mortar comes out to at least two to two and a half joint widths, and deeper wherever it is still loose, which for most brick joints works out to roughly half an inch to an inch.

Head joints, the short vertical ones, come out by hand with a chisel, because a grinder that slips sideways cuts into the brick. Long bed joints can sometimes be opened with a grinder where the brick and the joint width allow it, then squared up by hand. Raked joints are brushed out and dampened so the dry brick does not pull water out of the new fill.

Spalled brick and wet chimney tops come first

Repointing restores joints. Bricks whose faces have spalled off come out first and are priced on their own, and a cracked crown or lifted flashing above the stack is fixed in the same visit so the new joints stay dry.

The free inspection tells you which of these your chimney needs. Call (904) 920-5495 to book it.

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