Cost of repointing in lime mortar per meter squared

[TheSpid]

Just looking for a ball park figure/rough guide if anyone has had this done - raking out old cement mortar on stone and repointing in lime - cost per meter squared is probably easiest - finding costs for scaffolding is fairly easy - I'm also assuming it takes longer than for using cement mortar and so that will increase the average cost. Many thanks.

 

[malcolm]

I recall pirces starting around £50 per m2 for brickwork. I did mine myself and would manage 3m2 per day. Worth getting someone good - seems very common for joints not to be raked out deeply enough (or at all) so the pointing falls out after a few years.

 

[TheSpid]

Thank you - can I assume stone might be a little more expensive as more fiddley?

 

[skier-hughes]

I paid £100 metre sq and they did an excellent job.

 

[TheSpid]

thank you

 

[MatthewC]

Re-pointing odd bits of random rubble on the walls of my house has one of my pastimes for the last five years. You just have to work out the mixture to give the right colour when it dries, and the process for getting the right surface finish. Satisfies my OCD!

I was going to include the garden walls in this but actually they are more like "re-building" than mere "re-pointing".

Matthew

 

[CliffordPope]

The size of the stones must make an enormous difference. Large regular stones with narrow gaps would take far less mortar and be much less fiddly than small random rubble. Then there's the task a few days (?) later going over it all tumping with stiff brush, and then some weeks (?) later again with a wire brush cleaning up the stones.
I can't remember the details, but it took them a long time and cost a lot.