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the_henry•1d ago

DAE change their mind on winter mortar after one cold snap in Boise?

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james672•2d ago

Showerthought: I swore by a dry saw on every brick for 12 years until a dust cloud in Phoenix cost me a job

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ryan_carr59•3d ago

Got called out by a 30 year mason for slapping mud on the block face, and it fixed my wall in a week

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the_henry•5d ago

Been laying brick 22 years and just learned the joint raker was making my mortar dry out wrong

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thomas_young•8d ago

Watching a guy in Tulsa rake his mortar bed before laying saved me 20 minutes a course

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evanfox•9d ago

Old head at a job in Cincinnati said my bed joints were too thick and I blew him off for a month

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the_anna•9d ago

Old timer on the scaffold in Tulsa said my head joints were 1/4 inch wide, and he was dead on

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the_luna•9d ago

Shoutout to the old head in Cleveland who showed me how to strike a line without a chalk box

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julia843•10d ago

Dropped $340 on a laser level that could not handle a windy day on a two story wall

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johnfoster•11d ago

Mixing lime putty by feel instead of by ratio fixed my cracking issue

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dakotawells•17d ago

Level going dead in the middle of a four course run in Des Moines

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tarab54•20d ago

Tried a raked joint for the first time on a retaining wall, now second guessing myself

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sarahsullivan•21d ago

Noticed some wild brick patterns at an old mill in Lowell

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nora10•21d ago

Fire alarm goes off mid-wall, customer says keep laying brick

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nora10•28d ago

That foreman's 'wet the wall first' advice cost me a whole Saturday

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