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Old timer told me to wet my bricks before laying them on a hot day
Last summer in Austin I skipped this step on a retaining wall job and the mortar dried way too fast. Ended up with cracks in three spots by the next morning. Anybody else dealt with mortar setting too quick in the heat?
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emerycarr1mo ago
Yeah I learned that one the hard way too. Soaked the bricks? Nah, I'm too cool for that. Next thing I know my mortar is setting up like concrete in a bucket before I even butter the damn things. Had to chip out half a course and start over. Now I keep a spray bottle handy at all times, feel like a mad scientist misting my bricks every ten minutes. Your old timer buddy was definitely onto something though, right?
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uma_webb281mo ago
Mist bricks like I'm watering a houseplant that's already dead.
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