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 and have lost their outer coat (so the terracotta is showing – and creating even more dust). The brick wall is a supporting wall and the majority of the bricks are fine. The ones in the worst condition are in a cluster. I noticed that one area was in worse condition than the rest on Friday when I took down a mirror that had been hanging for four years. I don’t think the mirror contributed to the deterioration because it was hung on a nail that had been hammered into the mortar before I bought this place and it wasn’t pressed right up against the wall. I moved it to make room for a new bookcase and now I’m worried about what’s going on back there. Does anyone know what would cause this and what can be done to fix \/ stop it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 and have lost their outer coat (so the terracotta is showing – and creating even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masonry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/03\/interior-brick-2\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Interior brick wall – crumbling bricks","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/03\/interior-brick-2\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/03\/interior-brick-2\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Masonry","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-03-25T18:36:33Z","datePublished":"2007-03-25T18:36:33Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:26Z"},"rendered":"