How do you keep old soft brick from crumbling? ?

Question

Our chimney comes through the bedroom and the brick is coming off like a heavy dust. The house was built in 1860 so I'm guess it's because it's soft and the movers that took out the previous owners things knocked into it and damaged it opening up the bricks.

Answer 1

You have to have a bricklayer come in and tuckpoint the brick. They will chip out the broken brick and replace it with new brick, matching color and size the best they can. This is normal maintenance.