Our fireplace was not maintained too well before we bought this house. It has been fine for 3 years, but this year we had some major rains and now it has pretty much been snowing non stop for 2 weeks. We have noticed that water was dripping into the fireplace which has never happened. Upon closer inspection I also noticed that the mortar between the firebrick were kind of foaming and very soft. I could scoop the mortar right out of the joint if I wanted to. Now this looks like it might have been repaired before, but obviously not correctly. My question...1. why is there water coming in? 2. how do I fix the mortar problem? Is there a special mortar I should use? Someone said to just build a fire and it'll all dry out on it's own, but I don't buy that theory. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks
2007-02-01
08:06:02
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