Tuck pointer
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A friend of mine is probably the best pointer in west London.
He tends to do weather struck pointing.
I think he uses the 12mm.
I, as a decorator, often paint the windows on the properties that he is pointing (why pay for scaffolding twice).
I have never noticed any rust on his tuck pointers, so I assume that they must be stainless steel.
Rust aside, I guess they wear down at a slower rate.
As a decorator, I seldom buy stainless steel filling knives because they are less flexible. I guess that isn't a problem with tuck pointers though.
He tends to do weather struck pointing.
I think he uses the 12mm.
I, as a decorator, often paint the windows on the properties that he is pointing (why pay for scaffolding twice).
I have never noticed any rust on his tuck pointers, so I assume that they must be stainless steel.
Rust aside, I guess they wear down at a slower rate.
As a decorator, I seldom buy stainless steel filling knives because they are less flexible. I guess that isn't a problem with tuck pointers though.
6mm will be better to push mortar in to fill the beds and perps, you could use the 12mm to finish the joint, no need for stainless(main brands are not stainless) if they rust it only takes a minute to remove.
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No standard bucket handle. I want a tool to pack mortar into a joint when I'm replacing individual bricks in a wall, and a tuck pointer seems to be the standard tool to do that?
Other suggestions welcome.
It's more about using the right consistency mortar than the tool. The tuck iron is for finishing , not putting the mortar into the joint, so you'll struggle with that.
Not too sloppy mortar, and use a pointing trowel. Butter the bricks first, including the top on a slight angle thicker towards the back.
Not too sloppy mortar, and use a pointing trowel. Butter the bricks first, including the top on a slight angle thicker towards the back.
I use a filling knife to butter the bricks and slide them in, but using a hawk and tuck pointer seems to be a common way to fill the joints?
At about 6:30 in:
At about 6:30 in:
You need a tuck pointer to push the mortar in and you need something flat to hold the mortar that you can lean against the bricks level to the bottom of the joint then push in the mortar….you can buy a special pointing hawk, but for small jobs I use a cheap plasterers trowel upside down
I’ve found a 6mm tuck pointer is the most useful as it can push mortar into most joints
A plasterers “small tool” is very useful for small pointing jobs.
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I've never used a tuck iron to fill joints, and disagree that it's commonly used for this.
Pointing trowel, flatten the mortar to joint thickness on a brick trowel or hawk, cut it to suitable sections, slide it in. Rinse and repeat.
Pointing trowel, flatten the mortar to joint thickness on a brick trowel or hawk, cut it to suitable sections, slide it in. Rinse and repeat.
All the brickies i know use finger/tuck trowels to fill bed joints, it's insisted on where i work, we have had problems with some bricklayers in the past with mortar being washed out on final brick cleaning.
I have one, and sometimes have made good use of one - but I had no idea they had their own name.....
There is just nothing else, apart from the tuck trowel that enable you to pack the mortar into place, when doing a brickwork repair. Before I had a tuck trowel, I used to make do with a large screwdriver, to compact the mortar into place. Then I bought a set of various trowels, floats, and that included the tuck trowel.
There is just nothing else, apart from the tuck trowel that enable you to pack the mortar into place, when doing a brickwork repair. Before I had a tuck trowel, I used to make do with a large screwdriver, to compact the mortar into place. Then I bought a set of various trowels, floats, and that included the tuck trowel.
Then is it a lack of skill thing with today's bricklayers?
Are the site management concerned that the brickies are not able to use a pointing trowel like it's been done for centuries before?
Tuck pointing is rare in my area, but replacing bricks is not, and I'd struggle to remember seeing a tuck iron in anyone's tool bucket. Seen lots of similar irons for smoothing recessed joints, but even those were rarely used for anything else.
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