The powdered cement and lime are the glue that holds the sand together and allows the mortar to bond to each brick (or ...

Firebrick is mortared with refractory cement, which, unlike regular masonry mortar, can withstand high heat. Refractory cement comes premixed in a bucket and has the consistency of peanut butter.

This tool makes short work of punching a reliable hole in concrete, mortar, brick, Portland cement plaster (stucco), and even many types of stone. Once you have that hole–properly known as a ...

But nothing lasts forever, and everything has a weakness. In the case of your brick walls, that weakness is the mortar—the cement-like “glue,” visible in the joints between the bricks ...

Rhoepel Plus Mortar Admixture is used ... single-wythe masonry construction, paving stones, segmental retaining wall units, concrete roof tile and precast/prestressed concrete ...