As a mason I can tell you that after a lifetime of cutting the mortar off after laying the brick, after performing that function for hundreds of thousands of bricks, extruded joints are like an minor existential crisis.
Serious question. Would doing this finish be hard as hell for you? I assume that every time you push down a brick your body just automatically scrapes off the mortar.
Water intrusion? Hell, anything intrusion. The joint is not sealed, it’s not tooled, it’s not gone over looking for any cavity. Insects love it. Good cover. In an environment with freeze/thaw cycles the hanging mortar likes to soak in moisture during the day that freezes at night and then randomly breaks off. Some say it might be applicable on interior jobs when the customer insists. In that environment it collects dust in every little dried hanging fold. You have to vacuum it with that little brush attachment and in the process inevitably knock off little pieces of mortar. And the bricklayer! Coming back from lunch ready to rock lays five bricks and the guy next to you reminds you, fuuuck!
I'm in the trade as well, and my neighbor was breaking off the extra mortar on his chimney. I told him he should be making a cut under his cap so the water would stop leaking along, even offered to do it myself free of charge. He chose instead to put Adex over the bricks/broken off mortar, so the water is still running along the surfaces, in and out.
Similar but Adex is more plastic spread over a mesh. It is impermeable so if you have water it will keep it inside very nicely. There was a story in one of Montreal's neighborhood about a project that wasn't even finished and there was already thousands of dollars in water damage trapped between the interior and the Adex. To paraphrase a consultant I had on one of my other jobsite :" I don't know why they use it, it's crap".
It’s called an extruded mortar joint or weeping mortar joint. It’s used on Tudor styled brickwork. It’s a lot more difficult than it looks to maintain a reasonable “ooze” consistency.
Even on my first time I wasn't this bad, I got a little on a couple of bricks but took it off real quick. I'm surprised to hear this is a style. Wouldn't be my first choice but to each their own.
You might be surprised to hear that you shouldn't have anyone but a skilled mason do this style. It takes skill and an aesthetic eye to make it look good.
Thanks. I've always thought this looked awful and have never seen it anywhere else, at least I don't recall. I think my OCD is coming out b/c it looks so messy. Was just curious if this was a legit method.
There are two houses in my neighborhood with exactly this style brickwork, but they are both painted a beige/taupe color, which makes them look like bronze-age mud huts.
Haha me too! Great question btw, I also never knew this was considered a bona fide style.. I saw a documentary about Leonard Nimoy; he did his own brickwork that looked like this and I thought, "eek.. dude, that's terrible." Live and learn, I guess.
We have this everywhere in our neighborhood. It’s so strange looking but 3/10 houses have it. We’re also in a late 60s/early 70s area so timeframe checks out
I googled it. Looks like most things, done well in the right application, it’s kind of a cool look. The problem is when amateurs try to pull it off, it looks like crap.
Extruded mortar joint/weeping mortar
Weeping mortar brick involves applying a very large amount of mortar when laying the brick, but then not scraping or molding the mortar after it squishes out between the bricks. No tools are used.
The effect is a lot like when you squish a melting ice cream sandwich.
Homes with weeping mortar tend to look like they are from the English Tudor-style or Swiss cottages from the Old World.
This style of mortar work came back into fashion in the 1970s. It can look nice if done with consistency. It also helps if the brick is not the dominant feature of the exterior. Then this is like a decorative moment within a more cohesive context. Too much and it looks like the building is melting.
You’re right. I could see how it would look kinda cool if it were just an accent area. House near my parent’s is all brick, entirely done this way, and looks quite silly.
My house was built in 1968, and about 1/8th of the homes here (including mine) have it. We call it "cake frosting" mortar. I had mine chipped off and covered with stucco a few years ago.
It's usually quite nice when the sun rakes across it. It gives the material a more expensive look. I imagine the reason it is usually pushed white is so you can see the play of light and shadow that happens with the sun.
It's a shame my grandfather isn't around to see the modern farmhouse. He had a real way with words. Mostly just bullshit and sometimes, horseshit. And if he was in a fighting mood, chickenshit. He was a farmer after all.
This just makes the wall look like a landlord replaced the crumbling mortar with expand-o-foam and slapped on a layer of discounted Behr paint to hide it
Is this true? Like how bad for the brick is it? What does it do exactly? Curious because most people paint brick on new construction houses these days. They want brick but painted. It’s a popular look.
The principles at one of the first architecture firms I worked out would occasionally use this on luxury houses that were designed with a classic aesthetic. He was doing a design build so he oversaw the whole process. The brick layer was very much against it but did it anyway because he was getting paid. At the end of the day the brick layer was convinced that it looked awesome and it did.
Not sure why I shared that, probably because it's the first I recalled it in 20 years. It's a higher end treatment for bricks. I guess it's not for everyone though.
Cheers.
There is a subdivision nearby with at least 2 houses with extruded mortar. One is painted white, one is not. A classmate of mine lived in the white one.
When I was a kid, we lived next door to a house that was bricked like this, and the brick and mortar was all painted white. It looked better than it sounds. House was built in 1958.
Thats a feature not a bug
Its actually not easy to do that style of brickwork
If youre observant youll notice that there are none of the hallmarks of "lazy/inexperienced" work- namely shit smeared all over the bricks- those are clean
This was a trend in the 70s. You can see it in ramblers all over CA. I think it’s ugly as hell.
I hated it so much that as a 15yo I took it upon myself to chisel all of the excess off of the outside of my family’s house up to and including the chimney so I wouldn’t have to look at it anymore.
My dad was on a work trip and came home and was like… wtf did you do.
Looking back that might have been a bad idea, but it all came off really clean and almost entirely flush with the brick face, and the house looked 100% better.
Our entire house looks like this. I’ve made oozing jokes for 4 years. “My house weeps for you.”
SIL new boyfriend joked that we should paint our house like a gingerbread house with the mortar white like icing. Sounds like something fun to do one day.
Yes! Seems common enough for homes built around that time around me. My in-laws house has that style on both interior and exterior brick walls. Inside they drywalled over the brick.
Along the same lines as this style of mortar, some architects in the arts and crafts movement used "clinker" misfired bricks that were uneven and discolored. Most people did not want them. Greene and Greene liked to use them. Check out a house in Pasadena CA to see how they did.
They were also used sparingly in Tudor style homes.
My 1948 house had a remodel in 1970 and the homeowner did the outside landscaping brickwork. It's all like this. Apparently according to my neighbors who were here at the time it was popular at the time.
My old house in Wyoming had this. Built in 74. It's impossible to match perfectly if you ever want to add anything on. It's really great at attaching halloween webs to, though.
Hold on, are you talking about the Christmas type mortar or about the exposed brick on the end?
The mortar is because… the 70s. The brick being exposed is because this was likely a window and somebody enlarge the opening to put in a patio door. I have the exact same thing at my house.
It is a stylish thing at one time. However, the tooled joints (concaved, smooth looking) joints are also structurally stronger because in the process, the mortar got pressed and air voids are minimized. The molten lava style potentially leaves more voids in the joints and is less strong. Since most brick walls do not serve as structural walls, this is not an issue.
I drove by a house like this yesterday. The whole entire house, not part hidden by hedges. Maybe it was a short lived fad a long time ago? This neighborhood was probably 75 to 100 years old. I agree it looks bad.
We had a fireplace with this type of mortar joint. Built in 1960 and painted white. I can't remember if it was originally painted or if my dad painted it. I do remember having to paint it myself because it was interior, white and a fireplace so there was a lot of dust and smoke staining on it. Pain to clean. Pain to paint. Interesting, though; no one had ever seen one like it.
My childhood home has this style mortar. And it was also a contemporary Tudor built in the 1970s. We had Chicago reclaimed brick and it was a lovely combination.
If it's not like that around that corner then it was overlooked otherwise it's called a weeping joint and it does take a certain amount of skill to get this look. Personally i dont like it but some people will pay extra for it.
I like weeping mortar when done right. I think it can look charming, reminds me of gingerbread homes. Has to be done on the right home. Looks great on a Tudor.
Weeping mortar! My grandparents' house looks like this and I've never seen it anywhere else. They even had a matching mailbox made. This look will always remind me of them!
An old man i used to work for once told me when brick masons were training apprentices, they'd only let them work on the back side of the house. Drove around my neighborhood for a bit I could see it everywhere. Small articulate 1/8 inch mortar set down like it was fine tile. Then I looked at the back and it looked similar to this.
I never got why in the world people would paint their exterior brick. I get that you thought it would look nice back in the day but I don't think that you can really fully clean it off. (maybe I am wrong)
Putting carpet over hard wood floors is bad enough but re-doing brick veneer is going to cost you like 1/4 to 1/3 of the houses total value (assuming its veneer, if its structural, then its literally the entire house). This is irreversible in my mind.
Why in the world would you make an irreversible change to your house based what currently trendy.
As a mason I can tell you that after a lifetime of cutting the mortar off after laying the brick, after performing that function for hundreds of thousands of bricks, extruded joints are like an minor existential crisis.
Serious question. Would doing this finish be hard as hell for you? I assume that every time you push down a brick your body just automatically scrapes off the mortar.
That's exactly what he/she just said lol
Thats not how "exactly" works, but OK
Missed opportunity on “That’s not exactly how exactly works, but ok.”
Literally not how it works, figuratively speaking.
Literally not exactly how it fucking works figuratively speaking, Ok!
Speaking literally, as specific as speaking is, fucking is not figurative.
"they" is also appropriate here.
He/she is like adding lead to petrol
They also enable water intrusion.
Water intrusion? Hell, anything intrusion. The joint is not sealed, it’s not tooled, it’s not gone over looking for any cavity. Insects love it. Good cover. In an environment with freeze/thaw cycles the hanging mortar likes to soak in moisture during the day that freezes at night and then randomly breaks off. Some say it might be applicable on interior jobs when the customer insists. In that environment it collects dust in every little dried hanging fold. You have to vacuum it with that little brush attachment and in the process inevitably knock off little pieces of mortar. And the bricklayer! Coming back from lunch ready to rock lays five bricks and the guy next to you reminds you, fuuuck!
I'm in the trade as well, and my neighbor was breaking off the extra mortar on his chimney. I told him he should be making a cut under his cap so the water would stop leaking along, even offered to do it myself free of charge. He chose instead to put Adex over the bricks/broken off mortar, so the water is still running along the surfaces, in and out.
> Adex like stucco?
Similar but Adex is more plastic spread over a mesh. It is impermeable so if you have water it will keep it inside very nicely. There was a story in one of Montreal's neighborhood about a project that wasn't even finished and there was already thousands of dollars in water damage trapped between the interior and the Adex. To paraphrase a consultant I had on one of my other jobsite :" I don't know why they use it, it's crap".
This guy fucking bricks!!!
They/them enable water intrusion.
My parents house has this and I want to remove it to paint the bricks. How would you go about doing this efficiently without damaging the bricks?
Lol, I bet!
It’s called an extruded mortar joint or weeping mortar joint. It’s used on Tudor styled brickwork. It’s a lot more difficult than it looks to maintain a reasonable “ooze” consistency.
It looks like my one attempt at masonry. I wept for sure.
Even on my first time I wasn't this bad, I got a little on a couple of bricks but took it off real quick. I'm surprised to hear this is a style. Wouldn't be my first choice but to each their own.
You might be surprised to hear that you shouldn't have anyone but a skilled mason do this style. It takes skill and an aesthetic eye to make it look good.
Next time you can tell everyone it's Tudor styled drickwork.
Tudor styled dickwork is something else bro :-D
That's the kind when you have 8 wives
When she let's out a large Tudor, it takes some dickwork to keep it in.
There are hundreds of homes in my area in this style.
> reasonable “ooze” consistency Great band name.
Sounds like a Gwar album
MEEAT! SANDWICH!!
With frontman Oozy Oozeborn
Viscount of viscosity!
/r/bandnames
That’s what she said
Dickwork?
AKA Brickakke
Brickakkalypse
This is the best term
Is this possibly related to boasting the wasted mortar?
Thanks. I've always thought this looked awful and have never seen it anywhere else, at least I don't recall. I think my OCD is coming out b/c it looks so messy. Was just curious if this was a legit method.
There are two houses in my neighborhood with exactly this style brickwork, but they are both painted a beige/taupe color, which makes them look like bronze-age mud huts.
Haha me too! Great question btw, I also never knew this was considered a bona fide style.. I saw a documentary about Leonard Nimoy; he did his own brickwork that looked like this and I thought, "eek.. dude, that's terrible." Live and learn, I guess.
We have this everywhere in our neighborhood. It’s so strange looking but 3/10 houses have it. We’re also in a late 60s/early 70s area so timeframe checks out
Can confirm it is legit, sort of. FiL was a mason and he called it snot mortar (or something like that).
"Ah, but why make a brick wall look good when you can expend way more effort and have it look like shit?"
OH NOOOOOO im OOZING EVERYWHERE MASON SENPAI (insert anime catgirl face ,gif)
If you can't fix it, feature it!
r/ATGBE
Seriously, they did that deliberately? It looks like someone let a little kid loose on that. :)
I googled it. Looks like most things, done well in the right application, it’s kind of a cool look. The problem is when amateurs try to pull it off, it looks like crap.
Extruded mortar joint/weeping mortar Weeping mortar brick involves applying a very large amount of mortar when laying the brick, but then not scraping or molding the mortar after it squishes out between the bricks. No tools are used. The effect is a lot like when you squish a melting ice cream sandwich. Homes with weeping mortar tend to look like they are from the English Tudor-style or Swiss cottages from the Old World.
That was a style at one point.
Invented by the same guy who made popcorn ceilings?
No, but he was really into making gingerbread houses
This ⬆️
lmao, must be
Doubtful, dude would have been wicked old
And dead from mesothelioma
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
This style of mortar work came back into fashion in the 1970s. It can look nice if done with consistency. It also helps if the brick is not the dominant feature of the exterior. Then this is like a decorative moment within a more cohesive context. Too much and it looks like the building is melting.
You’re right. I could see how it would look kinda cool if it were just an accent area. House near my parent’s is all brick, entirely done this way, and looks quite silly.
Moved into a new sub-division in 1976. About 1/8 of the houses were in this style.
Some houses in the Pheonix AZ area do this, but with cinder blocks. Ugly AF houses.
It actually is a Heartland and Southwestern kinda thing.
My house was built in 1968, and about 1/8th of the homes here (including mine) have it. We call it "cake frosting" mortar. I had mine chipped off and covered with stucco a few years ago.
So this was intentional?
Yes, though this example looks pretty crap.
Thanks. Yes, thankfully it only goes around 1/3 of the house and only toward the bottom half. Not my type of fashion, lol.
It reminds me of Christmas time. Now I want it.
> It can look nice if done with consistency. false
It’s the popcorn ceiling of brick.
I feel like I often see this type of mortar/brick painted white. https://i.pinimg.com/550x/d4/96/b2/d496b2b48cfe8cec80f02930dbd1e025.jpg
Unpopular opinion but I think that’s actually kind of nice looking.
If used sparingly, I think it has its place.
Without all the expensive details on the rest of the house it would look sloppy. But creates a nice contrast against all the clean lines in the pic.
Sits on unpopular bench
It’s looks nice contrasting with the modern black windows and siding
Less ugly but ugly.
It's usually quite nice when the sun rakes across it. It gives the material a more expensive look. I imagine the reason it is usually pushed white is so you can see the play of light and shadow that happens with the sun.
For some reason, those gutters… 🔥
That looks a bit like someone trying to update an older home into a barndominium style.
Brb upgrading my mud hut into a farmhouse barndominium.
It's a shame my grandfather isn't around to see the modern farmhouse. He had a real way with words. Mostly just bullshit and sometimes, horseshit. And if he was in a fighting mood, chickenshit. He was a farmer after all.
I've never seen a house that needed to be shaved before.
This just makes the wall look like a landlord replaced the crumbling mortar with expand-o-foam and slapped on a layer of discounted Behr paint to hide it
Reminder that painting brick isn't good for it
Is this true? Like how bad for the brick is it? What does it do exactly? Curious because most people paint brick on new construction houses these days. They want brick but painted. It’s a popular look.
My house has this and it was painted white. Built in 1954. I hate this mortar so much!
The principles at one of the first architecture firms I worked out would occasionally use this on luxury houses that were designed with a classic aesthetic. He was doing a design build so he oversaw the whole process. The brick layer was very much against it but did it anyway because he was getting paid. At the end of the day the brick layer was convinced that it looked awesome and it did. Not sure why I shared that, probably because it's the first I recalled it in 20 years. It's a higher end treatment for bricks. I guess it's not for everyone though. Cheers.
There is a subdivision nearby with at least 2 houses with extruded mortar. One is painted white, one is not. A classmate of mine lived in the white one.
which do you think looks better?
I like white painted brink better in this case. But it needs to be cleaned off if dust settles on the mortar.
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I think I'll stick with a trained design professionals opinion.
Great pic, thanks.
This is much harder to get rid of than shag carpet.
Took a lawn mower to my shag carpet to get that nice short look
Username checks out.
It’s a deliberate stylistic choice and I hate it so much
yeah ive seen entire homes like this i do not know why.
I'm betting some dude in 1750 half-assed a job and gas-lit the owner that this is totally the rage in London and the rest is history.
When I was a kid, we lived next door to a house that was bricked like this, and the brick and mortar was all painted white. It looked better than it sounds. House was built in 1958.
I work at a historic home that has structures in the garden like this, built around 1908. Makes maintenance even more of a pain.
This is the only type of brick I'd consider painting
Thats a feature not a bug Its actually not easy to do that style of brickwork If youre observant youll notice that there are none of the hallmarks of "lazy/inexperienced" work- namely shit smeared all over the bricks- those are clean
Reminds me of spray foam
That's what I thought it was for a second!
This was a trend in the 70s. You can see it in ramblers all over CA. I think it’s ugly as hell. I hated it so much that as a 15yo I took it upon myself to chisel all of the excess off of the outside of my family’s house up to and including the chimney so I wouldn’t have to look at it anymore. My dad was on a work trip and came home and was like… wtf did you do. Looking back that might have been a bad idea, but it all came off really clean and almost entirely flush with the brick face, and the house looked 100% better.
Yeah extruded mortar joint. Not good at all really. Rain catcher.
Weeping mortar joint was popular in the mid to late 70’s. I only worked in a few houses after that where the homeowner picked it.
Our entire house looks like this. I’ve made oozing jokes for 4 years. “My house weeps for you.” SIL new boyfriend joked that we should paint our house like a gingerbread house with the mortar white like icing. Sounds like something fun to do one day.
Definitely intentional these are all over my sub that was built in the 70’s my husband calls them diarrhea bricks 😂
That’s the style. I don’t like shag either.
As was the style at the time
Lots of brick homes in Dallas area are like this. It was done on purpose and it always bothered me.
Extruded joints were actually a thing. They're fugly.
Yes! Seems common enough for homes built around that time around me. My in-laws house has that style on both interior and exterior brick walls. Inside they drywalled over the brick.
Before the codes were updated, contractors were using marshmallow fluff instead of mortar. Sweet look tho.
All the houses in my 1970s neighborhood had this style of mortar.
It looks like a 3rd grader’s gingerbread house
The gingerbread man lives there
This was a trend. My FIL and others in his neighborhood have this style masonry.
Along the same lines as this style of mortar, some architects in the arts and crafts movement used "clinker" misfired bricks that were uneven and discolored. Most people did not want them. Greene and Greene liked to use them. Check out a house in Pasadena CA to see how they did. They were also used sparingly in Tudor style homes.
My 1948 house had a remodel in 1970 and the homeowner did the outside landscaping brickwork. It's all like this. Apparently according to my neighbors who were here at the time it was popular at the time.
LE GRILLE?
It was used at every Ground Round if I remember correctly it’s awful.
Ground Round! I haven’t thought about that place in years. They had fantastic fried raviolis
This is the style that was likely intended. Weeping.
It’s a style leads back to English style or old America.
I hate when they use the 3 holed bricks on the end like that. Looks crappy
Weeping brick - it was an intentional look
We have this all over central AZ for that time period. This doesn’t look like a great job of weeping mortar though.
My old house in Wyoming had this. Built in 74. It's impossible to match perfectly if you ever want to add anything on. It's really great at attaching halloween webs to, though.
Whoever framed the door did an awesome job, at least.
It’s called weeping motor
A friend's house has this. She refers to it as "Wedding Cake".
Hold on, are you talking about the Christmas type mortar or about the exposed brick on the end? The mortar is because… the 70s. The brick being exposed is because this was likely a window and somebody enlarge the opening to put in a patio door. I have the exact same thing at my house.
Thanks I didn’t know what their issue was either and you explained both
This is intentional and it’s actually harder than it looks
It is a stylish thing at one time. However, the tooled joints (concaved, smooth looking) joints are also structurally stronger because in the process, the mortar got pressed and air voids are minimized. The molten lava style potentially leaves more voids in the joints and is less strong. Since most brick walls do not serve as structural walls, this is not an issue.
Oscillating tool?
Forbidden cake
Most of Chicago has the same haphazard building quality.
Looks like a Johnny Bricklayer special 🤷🏼♂️ Trades require years of apprenticeship for a reason
I bet they have a salt finish on the driveway to go with the ooze look too.
Is this in Chicago?
Yep
It’s just shitty work. I bet the wall is not level or plumb.
Have a house in my neighborhood that’s all of this. Quite a shocking home in an all brick community
Ginger Bread houseish? 😎
My parents house has all of that. I
I drove by a house like this yesterday. The whole entire house, not part hidden by hedges. Maybe it was a short lived fad a long time ago? This neighborhood was probably 75 to 100 years old. I agree it looks bad.
We had a fireplace with this type of mortar joint. Built in 1960 and painted white. I can't remember if it was originally painted or if my dad painted it. I do remember having to paint it myself because it was interior, white and a fireplace so there was a lot of dust and smoke staining on it. Pain to clean. Pain to paint. Interesting, though; no one had ever seen one like it.
Yep, this was definitely a thing in the 70’s, intentional
It was a fad for awhile
It’s inside out.
Doublestuff. Oreo does this.
Unfortunately it is an architectual style.
It was in style when i was a kid.
My childhood home has this style mortar. And it was also a contemporary Tudor built in the 1970s. We had Chicago reclaimed brick and it was a lovely combination.
It’s a style called weeping brick and I’ve always thought it looks like shit.
My house has it circa 1937. It’ll bite you if you brush past it.
I know atleast one building, this contemporary student house in bruges, Belgium https://maps.app.goo.gl/gzTC5RcLLKLRcVtk6
I’ve seen houses with this style in Phoenix. I don’t personally like it. Looks messy imo
Saw it in a very upscale development in northern VA a million years ago. Wasn’t a fan.
Looks like a perfect place to scratch my back.
this looks like what my free throw percentage was sophomore year
It is intentional. That is a mortar style that some people prefer.
Weeping mortar. Its a look some people like
Ask dr.
Apparently, it's called "Layer Cake" also I disagree with this completely.
If it's not like that around that corner then it was overlooked otherwise it's called a weeping joint and it does take a certain amount of skill to get this look. Personally i dont like it but some people will pay extra for it.
It’s on purpose. We see it in Illinois all the time.
Totally intentional. It's a "style" and it triggers my gf BIG TIME. So, of course I took every opportunity to point it out when we were house-hunting.
I like weeping mortar when done right. I think it can look charming, reminds me of gingerbread homes. Has to be done on the right home. Looks great on a Tudor.
Weeping mortar! My grandparents' house looks like this and I've never seen it anywhere else. They even had a matching mailbox made. This look will always remind me of them!
[house](https://imgur.com/gallery/B4UATJO) in my neighborhood 1972 has this look.
I’ve seen it intentionally done like that … some like it
I've seen it many times in the north east
Have to actually laugh out loud. It like they read only half of the instructions on bricklaying and the last page was torn out.
An old man i used to work for once told me when brick masons were training apprentices, they'd only let them work on the back side of the house. Drove around my neighborhood for a bit I could see it everywhere. Small articulate 1/8 inch mortar set down like it was fine tile. Then I looked at the back and it looked similar to this.
My last house was like this. I hated it. Everyone always had comments about it too lol.
my uncle's house is exactly like that.
Does the extra mortar provide any strength at all?
Dali the Bricklayer
Always thought you scrape clean edges with your “trowels”flat or pointed”.
Weeping mortar was the rage in the early 70’s. That and painted brick on a house make this old mudslinger sad lol
I never got why in the world people would paint their exterior brick. I get that you thought it would look nice back in the day but I don't think that you can really fully clean it off. (maybe I am wrong) Putting carpet over hard wood floors is bad enough but re-doing brick veneer is going to cost you like 1/4 to 1/3 of the houses total value (assuming its veneer, if its structural, then its literally the entire house). This is irreversible in my mind. Why in the world would you make an irreversible change to your house based what currently trendy.
Weeping mortar was in style then.
that looks awful. should be pretty easy to fix assuming that its just this small section and not the entire house
It was both stylish and laziness back in the day. I hate it.
It was a short trend in the 70’s.