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That time an old timer told me my joints were too tight
Been laying brick for about 12 years now. Early on I had this foreman named Frank on a job in Scranton. He saw me fighting with a line and told me I was cramming my joints too tight, said they'd crack when the building settled. I loosened up my spacing by about 3/8 inch and my walls held up way better on that project. Anyone else get a tip from an older guy that saved them headaches later?
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the_dylan29d ago
Frank's advice would've saved me a whole pile of cracked bricks I blamed on bad concrete.
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alicew686h ago
Nah, sometimes bad concrete really is the problem. You ever had a foundation pour go wrong?
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elizabethg1829d ago
Scrape off the old mortar completely before redoing it, that's what fixed mine.
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