Quikrete 8620-05 862009 Mortar Repair, 5.5 oz. Squeeze Tube, Pack of 3

I had to repair the front brick house steps. Some of the cement had come from between the brick and it looked really bad. These places also had the potential to hold water and if it froze later in the year the brick would have popped loose. This stuff was great. I was able to repair all of the crevices and spaces between the brick and it matched the original cement exactly. I was really surprised because the original cement was 15 years old. You can't even tell where I patched several gapped areas of various sizes between the brick. I cut the tip at a slant which was really helpful when applying the mortar repair. Using the slanted tip made application easy between the brick without getting excess on the brick. I was able to actually just use my finger to smooth it out, make the curved trowel indentation between the brick and have it meet the brick and other mortar. Good stuff.

Best I’ve used to fill in chips between bricks. Color match is perfect. Easy to use and dries quickly

Received 3 tubes of Quickcre mortar repair shipping container in good shape, but 1 tube had a small hole and content dried out.

Repaired some gaps in bricks. Worked great and holding up well!

I ordered the 3 pack as I was unsure how much I would need. Thankfully I did! The first tube I attempted to use had a slit in the bottom down toward the crimped seal. This made for a huge mess and useless. The bottom leaked out a very watery substance while the little product I could get out of the tip was so thick that you could barely get it to come out now matter how hard you squeezed. This was also caused by a vacuum issue since there was the slit close to the crimp. No, I couldn’t get that lucky! Some mortar would come out with the clear liquid as well but mainly just liquid. With this slit in the tube it made it impossible to keep any type of pressure on the product to get it to come out at the tip so I trashed that one and pulled out tube #2. Before opening the way the instructions indicate, I squeezed the tube from one end to the next and side to side to insure the product was good and mixed. This was sooo thick it took much force to even get a tiny line out. I cut the tip wider hoping that would help, no! I never could get a consecutive line to come out or a thick enough bead to smooth it out or attempt to get it to blend in. This did have a sour smell to it. I don’t know if that normal or not. I was so frustrated with this product try everything to get it to just come out of the tube that I threw all of the tubes away (the unusable leaking tube, the tube I opened and tried to use and the unopened. I was also frustrated because I was trying to complete small repairs with this product in order to list my home and under a time crunch, it only caused me more stress so I didn’t bother contacting the company. I wouldn’t have had the time to wait for a replacement anyways so I ended up just going to one of my big box local hardware stores which is what I should have done to begin with.

As expected.

It helps, but doesn’t fully harden like mix & water mortar.

Had an uneven space between the bricks and mantle on my fireplace… this was the perfect amount in the perfect applicator to fill in the space!!

This mortar repair is perfect. Good colour and application is easy, can be a challenge to squeeze the tube though!

Recommend 100% I fixed my chimney bricks myself before the winter hit and cause bigger issues. I don't have a lot of strength in my hands I used pliers to twist the tube. The size of the tube's surprised me much bigger than I thought. I thought 3 tube's would be to much but I kept finding more cracks than the obvious really bad ones. Saved my self a fortune on repairs I would have needed in the future.