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Repoint Historic
Stonework
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AFTER.
This Church Bell tower was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry along with
some stabilization of the parapet and other stone details which were crumbling.
Color Code DGM 250. Joint Profile is Ribbon style. It is located in Easton,
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This
house was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc. The pointing profile
is an inverted "V." Color code DGM 50. It is located in Hartsville,
PA. |
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This
little outbuilding and well was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc.
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The
pointing profile is "Brushed back" Color code DGM 50. It is
located in Durham, PA
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This
house was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc.
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The
pointing profile is an inverted "V." Color code DGM 50. It is
located in Whitehall, PA.
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This
house was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc.
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The
pointing profile is "Brushed back" Color code DGM 50. It is
located in Doylestown, PA
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This
barn foundation was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc. This is
the after shot.
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The
pointing profile is "Weathered ridge" which is an inverted "V"
joint and then rinsed to exposed the aggregate and give it an aged appearance. |
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Color
code DGM 100 with brown concrete sand added for large aggregate which was
then exposed in the final texture. It is located in Phillipsburg, NJ |
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house was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc. The pointing profile
is "Brushed back" Color code DGM 250. It is located in Durham,
PA |
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This
house was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc. The pointing profile
is "Weathered Recessed" which is a "Brushed Back" joint
and then rinsed to exposed the aggregate and give it an aged appearance. |
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Color code 50% DGM 100, 50% DGM 250 with brown concrete sand added for large
aggregate which was then exposed in the final texture. |
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| This
house was fully repointed by deGruchy Masonry, Inc. The pointing profile
is an inverted "V." Color code DGM 100. It is located in Emmaus,
PA |
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This
home in Lahaska, PA was repointed by deGruchy Masonry Inc. using DGM 50
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Barn
in Springtown, PA was repointed by deGruchy Masonry. Duplicate color of
mortar with DGM 50.
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Farmhouse
we have repointed. Duplicate color of mortar with DGM 50
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BEFORE:
Tupperware", as coined by our customer and referring to the vinyl
siding which is covering their beautiful stonework
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AFTER
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AFTER:
Repointed by deGruchy Masonry using DGM 100
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This Porte cochere support wall needed a full repointing. The Wissahickon Shist stone also referred to as "Chestnut Hill stone" is found throughout the Philadelphia region.
This stone is a porous and soft sedimentary rock. Often ashlar blocks of stone and "Snecked rubble" coursing complemented the stone with evenly gauged mortar joints. In this case the "Ruled raised ribbon style" was used to create a more formal uniformity.
deGruchy Masonry, Inc. repeated the original use of a ruled raised ribbon pointing to match the balance of the house. Many times when the masons did this style of pointing it was highlighted in a white lime paint in the center of the ribbon. It is typical that only the base color of mortar remains and often the white highlight which has washed away from the acidity of rainwater does not get renewed. |
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seen is a rural farmhouse where stones were actually won from a quarry miles
away and brought by cart to the site. Although every stone building which
was lined-out in the wet plaster over rubble building stone was done so
romanticizing that quarry cut stone was used. Quarried stone used to build
with is what has actually happened here. Why did people romanticize this
type of formal masonry? Because it was a sign of affluence. You were doing
pretty good if you had stones brought in or bricks made and brought in from
a distant location rather than using common fieldstone from your own field.
The owner was not going to cover this work with an external render of lime
plaster, he was going to show the world he was a man of means. Often we
see the same high ceilings in historic single homes made of brick and quarried
stone. Mortar is the inverted “V” in DGM 50. |
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| Cobweb
ribbon joint. Here we placed raised white material on top of neutral background
mortar as was originally performed. |
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