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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 235887, member: 5841"] I s'ppose you could call it gardening of a sort. Twenty-four years ago when I bought our first Honda CRV, I moved the right-hand gate pillar eighteen inches to the right, to make it easier to back in. I had some York stone left over from when I built the koi pool, patio and path, so I made another path to the side of the concrete drive, so I wouldn't be treading on the grass when I got out of the car. Over time this path had weathered, well at least the mortar between the York stone had and I was always having to prise weeds out of it. So today after cutting the lawn I decided to re-point it. I'd run out of plasticiser, so I used the bricky's standby, washing up liquid. Well, not actually that as we've a dishwasher so we had none, so I used neat car wash liquid. I did have some yellow cement dye. Anyway, job sorted. It's difficult to get a professional finish with a pointing trowel when none of the pieces of stone are regular and if you rarely do any "brickying." My solution is to do it as best I can with a trowel, then go over it with a fine 2" dry paintbrush. If you don't make the mortar too wet it works fine. The mortar will dry lighter and the staining on the York stone will weather in a few weeks. Like our first one, I've had this car from new. It was seventeen years old this year, but it's only done 62,000 miles. As everything on it works I can't be bothered to change it. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1060130.JPG"]92787[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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