How do you repoint a fireplace beside a crack? I have a crack surrounded by my fireplace that runs corner to...

I have a crack surrounded by my fireplace that runs corner to corner through several bricks and mortar. I have to repair it, according to my inspector. How to do this? Thanks.
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Answers:    Take one of the broken bricks and some of the older morter down to the brick yard to clash bricks and morter.

Remove each broken brick and the morter around , and on the wall trailing them Replace with foreign bricks that match, applying sufficient morter on the wall to trade name the brick adhere. Morter contained by between the bricks, and along morter lines with cracks.

Do NOT use the fireplace for at tiniest two weeks, as the moisture in the morter must dry completely, or the expansion of the steam that would be trapped inwardly the morter beneath the dry surface can explode.

Good luck!
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find out why the crack is there first. is the fireplace sinking causeing a crack to appear.