Tuckpointing Cost Calculator

This calculator estimates what it costs to tuckpoint (repoint) a brick wall -- grinding out failed mortar joints and packing new mortar back in. Wall Area is the engine behind nearly everything here, but it drives the estimate through two separate tracks: it sets the estimated Linear Feet of Joints from a fixed ratio of horizontal and vertical joints per square foot of standard brick coursing, and that joint length in turn feeds Mortar Needed; separately, Wall Area also drives Labor Hours directly, on its own flat rate of 20 square feet per hour, without going through the joint-length figure at all. Joint Grind Depth and Joint Width both scale Mortar Needed, because mortar volume is joint length times width times grind depth, yet neither one moves Linear Feet of Joints or Labor Hours, which are pinned to Wall Area alone.

Mortar Type is genuinely decorative in this calculator -- select Type M, Type S, or Type N and every dollar figure and quantity below stays exactly where it was, because the cost model here doesn't branch on mortar strength class at all. Labor Rate only touches the labor slice of Total Estimated Cost and leaves material quantities untouched. Real-world tuckpointing pricing swings widely with joint condition, brick age, access, and local labor markets, so treat this as a planning estimate rather than a number to hand a contractor as-is.