Parging Pictures

Because various folks have asked what parging is....I dedicate this post to you!

Before we bought the house, we noticed that the basement walls were crumbling in various places. After discussing this with the home inspector and researching on the internet, we decided that parging was the answer. Parging is pretty much like brick repointing.

So, first you have a wall that looks something like this:



Then it gets cleaned out really good, making a nice dusty mess. After cleaning, a cement mixture gets squished into all the cracks/gaps and it looks like this:



And then after that dries really good, it gets iced like a cake with another layer of cement mixture and voila -- nice, non-crumbly basement walls:



It's almost done...and we can't wait to get the basement cleaned up and more functional. The parging will really help the basement be less dusty.

As always -- hurray Frank!!