the_henry•2mo agoMost Upvoted

Went to a jobsite in Austin yesterday and saw a brick wall that made me cringe

Some crew laid a whole facade with the frogs facing out. Eight courses of brick and every single one had the indentation showing. How do you miss that for an entire shift without anyone saying something?

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butler.abby2mo ago

Put yourself in the homeowner's shoes for a second. They paid for that brick job and now they've got a wall that looks like it has a thousand little belly buttons staring back at them. Nobody's gonna notice until they get up close, but once you see it, you can't unsee it. That crew probably walked away feeling real proud, and now someone's gotta either live with it or pay to tear it down and start over. Honestly, it's the kind of mistake that makes you wonder if anyone on that site even knew what a frog was before they started.

eva_thompson102mo ago

My grandpa built a chimney once and realized halfway up he'd been stacking the bricks upside down, just kept going because he said "nobody looks at chimneys anyway." You can't unsee those frogs once you spot em, they stare at you like a hundred little disappointed faces.

kim_patel8917d ago

My buddy Mike runs a crew in San Antonio and he told me about a house they did in Alamo Heights where the homeowner specifically wanted a rustic look with reclaimed brick. They spent all day laying this massive patio wall and the next morning the homeowner comes out and goes "why do the bricks have little holes in them?" Turns out they'd used bricks from a demolition site that were actually the back side of a veneer brick. Mike said he had to rip it all out and redo it because the homeowner was already telling all her neighbors about her fancy new brick wall with the weird dimples. The worst part is the salvage yard sold them those bricks as "face brick" and never said a word about what side was supposed to show.