whats best for brick mortor cracks

[brian lee]

my wife and i enclosed our patio a couple years ago. couple months ago i paid someone to brick the bottom. im starting to see small gaps in places where the mortor on top meet the barnstyle paneling i have for exterior walls, may be from the temp swings we have in west texas, what would b best to use for a problem like this


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[Zeke]

Elastomeric caulk. It's available in mortar gray.

 

[brian lee]

Elastomeric caulk. It's available in mortar gray.

thank you


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[brownbagg]

mortar

 

[brian lee]

its really just the mortar seperating from the wood wall just hairline now but i dont want water getting in. think the caulk will work better for this


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[kbs2244]

Check that it is not the water getting out from behind the paneling.
There should bee "weep holes" leading onto the flashing at the bottom of the panels.
(There should be some at the bottom of the bricks also.)
Neither panels or your bricks are water proof.
Water will get behind them.

 

[Jinks]

If you scrape/gouge along that joint you'll probably find it's pretty thin in a lot of spots. Scrapping it out, making a "cake icing" type of tool, & refilling with plenty of mortar is the old fashion way of repair. Filling with elastomeric caulk like Zeke suggested is just as good & a lot quicker. Either way scrapping to find the thin spots isn't a bad idea.

 

[Zeke]

If you scrape/gouge along that joint you'll probably find it's pretty thin in a lot of spots. Scrapping it out, making a "cake icing" type of tool, & refilling with plenty of mortar is the old fashion way of repair. Filling with elastomeric caulk like Zeke suggested is just as good & a lot quicker. Either way scrapping to find the thin spots isn't a bad idea.

He really needs to do both. The rate of expansion between the 2 components requires both a solid and flexible joint. V-ing out the back side of the joint and fixing any weak spots, then back filling with caulk should last a few years before needing any further attention.

 

[brian lee]

Check that it is not the water getting out from behind the paneling.

There should bee "weep holes" leading onto the flashing at the bottom of the panels.

(There should be some at the bottom of the bricks also.)

Neither panels or your bricks are water proof.

Water will get behind them.

the paneling goes all the way to the ground. it has the holes in bottom brick joint and there is a water/ice barrier under the brick on the paneling

i never got a pic of the flashing that sits ontop of the water/ice barrier at the bottom

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[brian lee]

thanks for all the help guys


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