Fretting Mortar

Fretting mortar to the external brick cement mortar joins is a common problem that is found on many of our site inspections.

Fretting mortar can be identified by the cements joins crumbling and falling away from the bricks of the external walls.

Fretting to brickwork is caused by normal weather corrosion, pool water getting onto the brickwork, garden reticulation spraying onto external walls and the incorrect mixing of the cement mortar when the bricks were installed.

Once fretting mortar is identified it should be maintained to avoid any of the bricks coming loose and causing a structural problem to the property.

Fretting mortar can be simple maintained by replacing the missing mortar with new correctly mixed mortar.

Brickwork which is close to pools or garden reticulation should be sealed using specialize brick sealer paint to prevent any further corrosion from occurring.

Fretting mortar if identified in its early stages and maintained correctly will pose no future structural problem to the property.

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