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https://www.bulgerwicks.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pointing.gif600389Long periods of wet weather followed by freezing temperatures can have particularly damaging effects on brickwork. If pointing (the mortar running between lines of bricks) is damaged or eroded, or if the bricks have become spalled (broken up at the…