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Tue, Apr 10, 12 at 17:28
| The brick inside the fireplace appears to have been smoothed over with mortar & is now crumbling off. It has been converted to a gas log. Do I need anything special to repair this & skim it over with new mortar? Will just regular mortar mix be ok? |
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| Fireplace mortar is not the same as plain mortar. |
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| You want refractory mortar. |
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