Basement walls

Hello all,

I have a typical unfinished basement with masonry walls. The walls are constantly shedding dirt - which I think is dried up lime mortar. The dirt is getting all over everything in the basement and making it very difficult for me to use the basement for storage.

I was thinking of covering the walls with some sort of temporary curtain, just so I can actually keep things down there. But now I'm wondering - is this something that would be solved by re-pointing? Or is there some other solution I haven't thought of?

Thank you,

Eliza

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