How Do You Make Lime Mortar For Victorian Era Homes?
Homes built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s used a quality lime mortar to set their bricks and stones. Today’s mortars from Home improvement stores just don’t match older mortars. They are more cement than lime which could cause more damage to your fine Victorian home. It is impossible to find a good lime mortar recipe for tuck pointing these older homes. If you want to do-it-yourself rather than have a professional do it, here is a recipe for you. I found this mortar recipe in our attic in the the home builders instruction book with the original blueprints to our post Victorian Home. Buy the necessary ingredients. – To reduce this recipe you will need to convert all measures to cubic foot, then fraction it down to the amount you will need. I suspect this is a whole house amount. I have added a resource below that shows the measures of a barrel for conversion. Mix your measured dry ingredients well. Store them in a large water tight Rubbermaid container. Measure out the dry mortar
