Repointing in Whitefield

Most of Whitefield went up between the wars, and the semis around Besses o' th' Barn, Sunny Bank and Elms are the bread and butter here: red brick, tile-hung bays on some, and pointing that is now ninety years old. When it fails it fails on the bay and the front gable first, usually where the render or the tile-hanging meets the brick.

Older Victorian villas along Bury New Road have deeper, softer joints and sometimes stone dressings, which changes the mix. We look at the brick before we quote — a hard sand-and-cement on a soft Accrington-type brick is how you get spalling. Fifteen minutes down the A56.