How To Fully Repoint a Stone Building

This is Mount Bethel Methodist Church, built in 1844 and located in Mansfield Township, Port Murray, NJ. There's a lot of history here, and we really enjoyed working on the building so we put together this brief video that gives an overview of how to fully repoint (as opposed to spot repoint) a stone building. If repointing is done correctly, it should only need to be redone every century or more!

[@rollandjoeseph]

I'm in need of repointing my historic 1870s foundation and learned alot from you videos, thx. I now know to use a nhl3.5 to do the job. Is it possible to purchase pre-mixed 5g buckets of this lime mortar mix?

[@PreservationWorks]

@powerofpositive I edited the response: Lime Works does sell a mortar mix using St Astier and various sands and pigments. We do not sell or use mortar mix but we do sell some alternatives to St. Astier that are different in their natural color, set times, and workability. Tigre nhl 3.5 for example is close to the color of butter and great for pointing mortar around here in PA, we can match mortar generally with just sand modification, it’s very close to what was here in olden days. Lafarge 2.0 is very white and excellent for plastering. Anyway, hope this helps clarify.

[@peterfcoyle9127]

Did You use lime mortar?

[@michaelorrell1839]

48 over 24 sash, wow! Were they just painted? That's a lot of weight on the upper meeting rail. Nice job.

[@gary24752]

Without getting into the specifics of the mortar all the rest of the video is mute.