Repointing in Prestwich

Prestwich has a lot of good-quality Victorian and Edwardian brick — the big semis and villas off Bury New Road and around Heaton Park were built well, with rubbed-brick arches and stone cills, and they deserve to be repointed properly. Owners here tend to ask about matching the joint colour, and the answer is that we mix on site to match a cleaned sample, not out of a bag.

There are conservation streets in the village and around St Mary's Park where the council will want the original joint profile kept; we know which those are and quote accordingly. Chimneys are tall on these houses and often the first thing to go. About twenty minutes from Rochdale.