Lincoln Park Residential Restoration

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Lincoln Park Residential Restoration
Thursday September 9, 2010

Aaa-1 Masonry & Tuckpointing was called to restore the masonry gangway walls of a 100-year-old Lincoln Park single family home.

• The bricks were severely spalled (delaminated).
• Mortar joints were repaired numerous times with thin and ineffective smears of improperly applied mortar.
• The fill under the sidewalk had settled unevenly, causing the concrete gangway to pitch toward the house.

(See photo 1.) And look at the condition of the bricks and mortar joints around that roof drain! (See photo #2.)

Was it any wonder the finished basement chronically flooded?

To match the old coal soot-stained Chicago common bricks and mortar remaining on the upper floors of the home, we utilized a darker "clinker" brick and left the texture of the mortar in a rough unfinished condition.

• We carefully dismantled the outer wythe of the brick walls, revealing numerous abandoned chimney flues and windows that the developer covered over.

(See photos 4 and 5.)

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