Hello. What's the best way to repair a damaged top corner of a brick house?
I hired a tuckpointer to repair damaged areas of my house. The tuckpointer didn't do what he had agreed to do, and the relationship was not a good one even though I thought it ended reasonably well.
I was up on my ladder yesterday, painting my house. I discovered that, at the top front corner of my house, there was a 5/8" crack in the horizontal bricks along the top edge of the house. The crack extended around the corner of the house and cracked a brick around the corner. At first I thought it was some freak type of damage. Then it dawned on me that the tuckpointer may have done the damage deliberately, given that the crack was clean and fresh. It appeared that the tuckpointer may have taken a chisel to create a crack and then he pushed the chisel so it make the crack larger and also damage brick around the corner.
I want nothing more to do with the tuckpointer because he is such bad news. I have been studying mortar mixes and tuckpointing techniques and wonder if this is a repair I can do myself.