[LouisVanDerWright]

Very nice VIA, looks like you've got a particularly fancy cottage on your hands!

Also glad you didn't go with any caustics to clean, that's really only acceptable when trying to get paint off. Usually all you need to do is powerwash the brick on its lowest pressure setting with the widest tip to get 80% of the grime off. The patina of the original brick surface can't be reproduced, unless you wanna wait another 100 years...


And yes, can't tell you how many step fracture repairs I've seen where a new fracture just forms like two feet over because the underlying issues haven't been addressed. That reminds me, I gotta get a mason to address a water infiltration issue I'm having at one of my buildings where old porthole windows were improperly bricked in causing water to collect and enter the wall... Maybe I'll give them a call...