How to Tuckpoint/ Tuckpointing/Mortar Color Matching

[SqueakerTV]

Helpful video!

Does the "speed drying" of a sample at home over a heating vent give an accurate color representation that you can expect in the wall? Or does the "speed drying" cause the color to become lighter than it will appear finished in the wall?

[thebrickandstoneguy]

thanks for the feedback. this is a video for people who don't understand our trade or our lingo. It is meant to be instructional for people who don't know anything not train workers. It is certainly not a video for me to show off my speed.

[thebrickandstoneguy]

In my experience "speed drying" mortar does tend to make the final mortar color lighter. I have even had this happen with uncolored mortar.

[thebrickandstoneguy]

@RobertJ1966 Your welcome. I love this work and hope to help preserve the masonry trades.

[thebrickandstoneguy]

The "speed drying" I talk about in this video and others is a way of getting close to the right color. In some circumstances it will work so close that the difference is negligible. If I was working on an entryway or some other high profile area of a home then I would not recommend speed drying. On many walls the color has oxidized differently and so a "general color" is chosen.

[xeniabucs]

I hate to break it to you but if we where on a swing stage I'd throw you off for boarding the hawk

[stevetaylor]

why do these guys even do tuckpointing

[jimmymorgan]

DID, NT SEE YOU., WET THE-WALL IN . bad building practice