Highlights Tuckpointing costs $1,500 on average, but a common price range is $500 to $2,500. The size of the home or brick structure is the biggest factor in determining the cost, along with labor ...

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 ...

The reasons St. Louis became a brick city are manifold: clay deposits in the earth, innovative brickmakers here in town, European immigrants who knew how to stack and scrape the blocks into elegance.

Loose, crumbling mortar between the brick joints of a chimney indicates that exposure to weather has taken its toll, so it's a good idea to inspect it once a year. Tuckpointing is the process of ...