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.

ALTON — A worker tuckpointing brick near the empty clock surround on the Wedge Building had his shadow for help Friday moring on East Broadway in Alton. The surround will eventually be fitted with a ...

That includes things like brick repair, parging, chimney repair and tuckpointing as well as other masonry restorations.

This impressive landmark, slate-roofed, tuck-point brick Edwardian residence c1910 is surrounded by tranquil gardens and magnificent mature trees in the prized Studley Park environs. Impressively ...