The reasons St. Louis became a brick city are manifold: clay deposits in the earth, innovative brickmakers here in town, European immigrants who knew how to stack and scrape the blocks into elegance.

Brick chimneys and walls can last decades, but they can become damaged by moisture and other environmental elements if not regularly maintained. Tuckpointing, which is the process of repairing mortar ...

Q–I have been told that the mortar joints on the outside of my brick chimney may need tuckpointing to cure moisture problems in that wall. Since the price I was quoted seems high, and since I am ...

Burglars stole a set of tuckpointing tools recently from a vehicle owned by the company renovating Glen Ellyn’s Village Hall. The thieves apparently pried open a window on a Holton Brothers Inc. truck ...