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Raked out mortar joints.
Joints wider than inch have to be deeper.
Insert the nail head on the rake you made into a vertical joint.
The drill makes quick work of removing mortar but be careful.
Scrape out the horizontal joints to a depth of at least inch.
To make your own raked joint tool drive a 6d box nail into a short 1x2 board so that it matches the depth of the existing joints.
Mortar joints can be made in a series of different fashions but the most common ones are raked grapevine extruded concave v struck flush.
2 times the joint s width a carbide tipped grout saw works well on these inch wide butter joints on wider joints use a cold chisel and an engineer s hammer.
Use the rotary hammer drill to pound the mortar out of the joints.
Premier diamond products mortar raking blades and evorake bits provide a great solution for raking out mortar joints prior to re pointing.
For this project we used a raked joint mortar profile.
When mortar is raked out of the joints it is smeared on the edges of the brick at the recesses.
To rake joints hold the board perpendicular to the bricks and move it back and forth first along the vertical joints and then the horizontal joints.
Remove any mortar you pull away from the joint.
The raked joint is another joint not recommended for exterior use because its ledge may allow water snow ice to sit on top of the brick.
In masonry mortar joints are the spaces between bricks concrete blocks or glass blocks that are filled with mortar or grout if the surface of the masonry remains unplastered the joints contribute significantly to the appearance of the masonry.
Due to the fact that the mortar sits back from the face of the brick there is less cover between the face of the mortar joint and the top of the brick unit where the cores exist.
Again work from the outside corners inward photo 3.
Keep the chisel point in the mortar joint and keep moving the hammer.
Pull the board straight down to created a raked joint.
To remove the mortar contractors often clean the walls multiple times with acid solutions or moderate to high pressure water.
These aggressive cleaning techniques can open up additional voids and separations which increases the likelihood of water.