Mortar is generally not as strong as brick, and in exposed brick ... bigger problems. The crumbling is known as “spalling,” and it’s a bad sign that your brick wall has been getting soaked ...

I live in a 100+ year old brownstone style building and I have an exposed brick wall in my living room. The bricks are not sealed and they create a lot of dust. Some of them are beginning to crumble ...

Does it ever stop forming? My brick three-family is about 120 years old and has an exposed brick wall in the back stairwell. I have lived in the house for 45 years, and efflorescence has always ...

In a Berkeley, California, kitchen, Clara Jung, the founder of local firm Banner Day Interiors, installed shelving over an exposed brick wall that had already been painted. Pots and pans are easy ...