The Advice Series is a series of illustrated booklets published by the Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The booklets are designed to guide those responsible for historic buildings on how best to repair and maintain their properties.

This guide will help you care for your historic brickwork by giving advice on:

—detecting problems in brick walls

—repairing damaged brickwork

—repointing historic brickwork

—cleaning brickwork

—getting the right advice