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white.elizabeth•1d ago

Just realized I'd been buttering my brick joints way too thick for 6 years

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evan_harris14•3d ago

Can we talk about the trowel I left in a bucket of water overnight in Amarillo

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anthony_wells•7d ago

Thought the string line was a crutch until I tried it on a 40 foot garage wall in Tulsa

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thea_carter•8d ago

Vent: I stopped soaking my brick trowel in water overnight and my mortar stopped sliding

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foster.dylan•11d ago

Update: a foreman in Kansas City made us soak our trowels overnight and I've never gone back

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karen_martin•12d ago

Keeping a wet sponge handy while laying in Phoenix heat

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davidh90•12d ago

Appreciation post: the $22 brick tongs that fixed my back after 15 years of carrying one at a time

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allen.quinn•12d ago

Vent: the guy running the mixer at a job in Omaha set my mortar way too wet and I didn't catch it in time

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stellahayes•12d ago

Shoutout to the guy in Tulsa who talked me into using a grout bag on my first arch, saved me 3 hours

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leelewis•12d ago

Watched my mortar joints crumble on a Jackson job because of one dumb habit

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davidh90•12d ago

PSA: A loose brick at the Tulsa job nearly took out my knee last week

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the_rose•15d ago

Watched a 40 year old wall in Toledo go from cracked mess to solid in 3 weeks

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wadeowens•16d ago

Pro tip: never trust a port-a-john on a Tuesday, my trowel hand still hurts from the 3 foot drop

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amymiller•17d ago

TIL an old timer at a job site in Dallas showed me the 3-2-1 mortar mix and it saved my whole wall

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cora216•17d ago

Realized my mud was too wet for 8 years after a batch fell off the trowel in Tucson

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