OX Pro Brick Joint Raker

Prefect for racking cement to same depth when building a wall.Literally just roll it along the gap.very easy to use!

Good

I would have given 5 stars but the raking pin snapped off after around 2m of line mortar raking and I was going to send it back, I replaced with a snug fitting wood screw so it now screws into place and then locks to doubly secure. This is a lot better than the original brittle pin

I used this to rake out old lime mortar on an internal chimney breast prior to pointing, where a power tool would have been too messy. Once I used pliers to tighten the screw holding the raking nail, it worked really well taking the mortar out cleanly and easily without all the dust of abrasive discs.

A great tool that is well designed overall for the task - but as others have said, it only worked well for a few minutes before the nail worked loose. no amount of tightening with pliers would result in the nail being held. In fairness there is a lot of force placed onto the nail and its holding screw as its forced into brickwork....but that obvious so the manufcaturer needs to upgrade the flawed design.So, I recommend buying this tool, it will work well; but only if you are prepared to fit a thicker screw in place of the nail.

Did the job

Pin is too short, and the screw supposed to keep it in place doesn't very well, you have to keep tightening it.

I needed this to remove some old, substandard mortar on the brickwork of a chimney stack, ready for re-pointing. It did the job, so I'd recommend. Gotta have the knack! It's all in the hand movements! Then works fine. Tighten the nail with pliers though, to keep it firmly in place.