Cement pointing damages stone - perfect example

Fantastic example of cement strap pointing damaging the stonework of an old farmhouse. The barns are not pointed, and they are perfect. Where the barns become the house, some idiot has pointed it in cement. The stone is disintegrating, the mortar wet behind the cement. This is the best example I have ever seen of why not to point ANYTHING in cement. The house is damp because the walls cannot breathe - diagnosed by Property Care Association member companies as having rising damp, it doesn't - the barns are bone dry inside - the house is wet because the pointing is preventing the walls breathing. We will dry this house, not by damp proofing it, but by removing the cement pointing.
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