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Old 01-25-2008, 04:51 PM   #1
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Best Parge Material?

I have a client that needs a few cracks in his block basement to be parged(sp?). What is the best material to use? Will a regular premixed mortar work? The house is over 100 years old, so settling and future cracking should not occur anymore.

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Re: Best Parge Material?

It is not block (CMU) if it is over 100 years old, but regardless the best parging material is regular old pre-mixed mortar, maybe throw a handful of Fibermesh per bag.
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Re: Best Parge Material?

Yeah that's what I was going to use. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some "super product". I did the job today and it turned out great! Thanks for chiming in.
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