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This wall looks pretty good, no problems here, right?

This wall looks pretty good, no problems here, right?
Well maybe.
But look up at the second story level.
Look where the decorative front type brick meets the planer single colour side brick.
You can see the joint between the two, right?
The light whitish colour of the mortar, yes.
Why is it like that, we don't see any others like it do we.
So lets go over and take a closer look at it.
Now you can see it ; 

  Now you CAN see it!
  There's a bulge! 
  What does that mean?
  That means that the ties that joined this masonry to the wall framing behind have let go, at least in some areas.
  Why? The metal strips have rusted and broken. This is from water that has gotten in behind the wall bricks over the years.
  This can be from just the weather exposure of the brick, but usually it indicates a weakness in the parapet wall flashing or leaking roof conditions.
  I suspect I already know what I'm going to see when I get on the roof of this property.
  To fix this a mason has to remove the bricks down from the top until he reaches ... more

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