Do you own a home in which the brick and mortar is crumbling or just needs a facelift? If you’re not a DIYer, you may leave this job to a professional. Hiring a reputable tuck pointer or masonry ...

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.

Q-Some of the mortar in my brick chimney is cracked and falling out and I would like to do the necessary tuck-pointing myself. Do you have any advice? A-Scrape out all the old mortar that is loose and ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – There’s a potential ...