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An 80-pound bag is sufficient to repoint well over 100 bricks.

This will make it impossible for us to get in to repoint or do any building maintenance on our wall.

An 80-pound bag will repoint more than 100 bricks.

Can we repoint over this compound so as to make the basement clean and usable?

His job was to repoint the bricks - apply new mortar between the spaces to restore both the strength and appearance of the wall.

This summer they plan to repoint the exterior walls and repair damaged terra-cotta units.

Two months ago, Alto began removing and replacing crumbling bricks and preparing to repoint the building's entire exterior.

A $120,000 project to repoint only the upper floors of 307 East 44th Street was begun over the summer.

I suggest you repoint the walls using a 6:1:1 mix of sharp sand, hydrated lime and sulfate-resisting cement.

His roof, too, had developed a leak, and Roux had offered to help him mend it and repoint the brickwork.

The Washington Monument has been closed to the public until December to erect scaffolding so that workers can inspect, repoint and clean its marble skin.

Students will learn how to repoint stone using historically appropriate techniques, or how to join and repair wooden mortise-and-tenon flooring and walls.

The grant will be used to remove the stucco from the facade of the building, which was applied sometime after 1925, and repair and repoint the masonry.

Omni's $22 million restoration at its William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh includes $3 million just to repoint the bricks.

According to the invoice, the builders were told to "rebuild walls to old water wheel structure", "repoint low level areas as agreed to house" and "leave the job tidy".

He hired Kathan, a temporarily out-of-work stonemason, to repoint and rebuild the chimney and restore the fireplace, a task that would take weeks.

Restore and replace the General's sword and reproduce missing bronze pieces; secure a loose bronze eagle to the base; clean and repoint the granite pedestal.

Any attempt to pan up or down would cause it to flop down, leaving it pointing uselessly at the ground and requiring an astronaut to repoint it.

"If it works it's great, but if it doesn't, it requires technician's skills to repoint the dish," Mr. del Rosario said.

Hydrazine monopropellant was used for course corrections inbound to Jupiter, and later used exclusively to repoint the spin axis (and thus, the antenna) at Earth.

This allows the telescopes to rapidly repoint towards a GRB, often within seconds of receiving the signal and while the gamma-ray emission itself is still ongoing.

"What you end up with is massive deterioration of the mortar joints," Mr. Allen said, adding that when that happens, the only thing to do is to repoint the surface.

However, because the horizontal joints are longer, it is often easier to repoint them by using a long, narrow tool called a margin trowel than by using the pointing trowel.

Bricks salvaged from the factory that is to be demolished will also be recycled and used for walkways as well as to repoint the facade of the building being renovated.

Mr. Herget had to erect a sidewalk bridge; the paint had to be stripped off to repoint the masonry and, as Mr. Mason says, "one thing led to another."