Dear Tim: I have a lovely brick patio that has mortar between the brick. After pressure-washing it this past weekend, I noticed several locations where the mortar has disintegrated. Most of the mortar ...

Question: There is an area in our garage that is leaking water. The water is coming from the brick wall and causes a small amount of flooding when there’s heavy rain. What can we do to stop the ...

A reader recently emailed me, seeking advice on whether to take on a do-it-yourself repair of the mortar around her brick masonry. She regularly performs hands-on maintenance around her home, she said ...

Brick wall restoration using lego we're fixing a damaged brick wall with a very unconventional tool lego bricks. By using a lego piece as a perfect mold, we can recreate the missing mortar lines with ...

Low, short garden walls can be built with a single wythe—that is, with only one horizontal row of bricks. But such walls are not strong. You can even push them over by hand. Double-wythe brick walls ...