In the case of your brick walls, that weakness is the mortar—the cement-like “glue,” visible in the joints between the bricks, that keeps your bricks together. Mortar has a much shorter ...

usually because the brick has deteriorated or mortar joints have been damaged," Domanowski says. In colder climates, this moisture freezes and expands, fracturing the brick over and over until the ...

Notice how the shadow appears to “fall” into the recessed mortar joint; compare the edge of the shadow to the straight edge of the red arrows! Brick detail from two sun angles The next image ...

If the cost of opening a brick-and-mortar joint gives you heartburn, put your meals on wheels and go where the hungry people are! Not only is serving up your stuff to peckish people a satisfying ...