Jump to content

Search results

View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Thumbnail for Repointing
    Repointing is the process of renewing the pointing, which is the external part of mortar joints, in masonry construction. Over time, weathering and decay...
    13 KB (1,716 words) - 20:53, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eton College
    (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1875) in 2 vols. McConnell, J. D. R., Eton Repointed: The New Structures of an Ancient Foundation (London: Faber & Faber, 1970)...
    100 KB (12,127 words) - 09:54, 23 September 2024
  • reasons, or to prepare a surface for topcoating with an additional form of protective coating. Parging is a low-cost alternative to repointing, providing...
    1 KB (137 words) - 19:53, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tuckpointing
    with pointing (to correct defects or finish off joints in newly laid masonry) and repointing (to place wet mortar into cut or raked joints to repair weathered...
    8 KB (949 words) - 17:41, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for James A. Garfield Memorial
    In 2019, the cemetery began a multi-million-dollar project to clean the exterior and repoint any damaged or missing mortar. It is the first time in the...
    12 KB (1,143 words) - 00:34, 4 October 2024
  • Château DIY (formerly known as Escape to the Château DIY until 2020) is a Channel 4 formatted documentary television series which follows the stories of...
    59 KB (1,599 words) - 20:51, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mortar (masonry)
    repair and repointing of historic buildings and structures, so that the repair materials will be similar in performance and appearance to the original...
    22 KB (2,663 words) - 15:57, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for GOES-18
    and telemetry and command uplinks and downlinks. Users will not need to repoint their antennas. GOES-18 ABI data will be available via a Cloud interface...
    12 KB (1,146 words) - 00:41, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Masonry trowel
    pointer: used for neatly packing mortar between bricks and blocks when repointing and repairing crumbling mortar in masonry walls. Reader's Digest Book...
    3 KB (369 words) - 16:22, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mortar joint
    degraded mortar joints need to be renewed by removing the old mortar and applying new mortar, a process known as "repointing". Mortar joints in brickwork...
    6 KB (918 words) - 06:11, 22 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Gamma-ray burst
    the Gamma-ray Burst Coordinates Network. This allows the telescopes to rapidly repoint towards a GRB, often within seconds of receiving the signal and while...
    119 KB (12,984 words) - 08:31, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Washington Monument
    Washington Monument (category Monuments and memorials to George Washington in the United States)
    repairing and repointing the monument's exterior and interior stonework. The stone in publicly accessible interior spaces was encased in glass to prevent vandalism...
    145 KB (17,789 words) - 13:24, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lime mortar
    Lime mortar (category Articles to be expanded from June 2023)
    helps to pull water from the brick. This can help to prevent the older brick from spalling. Even when the brick is a modern, harder element, repointing with...
    30 KB (4,284 words) - 18:06, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hagia Sophia
    Hagia Sophia (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    when it was archaeologically cleared to its foundations in 1979, during which time the brickwork was also repointed. The skeuophylakion was again restored...
    228 KB (25,706 words) - 20:33, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for London stock brick
    availability of Portland cement to see London stock brickwork repointed using much stronger cement mortar. As repointing consists of replacing the outer...
    8 KB (1,106 words) - 12:16, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake View Cemetery
    In 2019, the cemetery began a multi-million-dollar project to clean the exterior and repoint any damaged or missing mortar. It is the first time in the...
    120 KB (14,551 words) - 00:35, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Washington National Cathedral
    extensive preservation needs; and a main organ in disrepair. Repointing the building was estimated to cost at least $5 million, while organ repair was set at...
    78 KB (8,365 words) - 21:53, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Empress (hotel)
    renovations from 2014 to 2017 saw the bricks repointed and the ivy removed. The removal of the plants was done in order to prevent damage to the bricks, as well...
    18 KB (1,834 words) - 03:14, 10 October 2024
  • the series to commercial television stations in syndication. Time Inc. launched This Old House magazine in 1995, focusing on home how-to, know-how and...
    42 KB (506 words) - 13:05, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building
    building materials." These measures allowed the GSA to carry out additional work: "restoration and repointing of the limestone exterior", repair and replacement...
    29 KB (2,972 words) - 17:00, 20 September 2024
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)