This house will forever remain a work in progress as it is our family home. The house has had a lot done to it by previous owners and an awful lot of bad too. In this case the entire house had been repointed with a cement mortar and besides preventing appropriate management of moisture it just looked extremely tired and run-down. The repointing was carried out with a mature lime putty. We switched to hot-mixed lime mortars for the rest of the house but this south facing elevation means the putty won't have an overly difficult life so far as capillary movement of moisture is concerned.
Now comes the long wait for the plants to grow up. There are more than a few beautiful plants waiting to put on a show against the lovely lime. We'll just have to watch and wait.
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