A vid that shows the steps I'm taking to repoint the mortar in a 145 year old brick wall.
Update: A lot of the comments suggest that I'm not a mason... and I never said I was. I'm a home owner, saving a lot of money by doing some very labour intensive work myself. The materials are dirt cheap, but time costs money when you are hiring someone to do it.
My process has evolved some since the video: I now wet down the wall prior to extraction with the chisel and in between scraping out the joints in order to reduce dust. I avoid a grinder because I think it would be too easy to mark the soft brick with one second of inattention, given that most joints are different sizes.
