First thing on Saturday, a quick trip to the builders merchant to return the sand I had delivered last week - decided I didn't need this after all. Well it wasn't such a quick trip in the end as the yard was a little manic with builders picking up trailer loads of sand and stuff. So it took a little while to pickup my blue return ticket from the guy in the yard, before getting my refund. All sorted and while I was there I picked up 4, 2" kerb edging slabs - for my concrete pour, more about that later...
I managed to get a good days work in on Saturday, firstly finishing off scraping out of mortar, which took longer than I thought as I found more areas in need of re-pointing. I took out entire areas around the door lintel and brickwork - you could see daylight through - see piccies.
I did make a start on the re-pointing but it took me a little while to establish a good technique. I'm not too worried about how the pointing looks, this is going to be well covered up firstly with the liquid moisture barrier and then my internal room construction. I'm more concerned with the joints being solid at the end of the day and so far the mortar is setting very solidly. Only managed to get about half way there on Saturday. I had intended to carry on pointing on Sunday but it was looking to be a nice day so I took the family to the seaside (Southwold). I might try and finish the job this week in the evenings - we'll see.