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charlie_roberts87•2d ago

Hot take: a $12 trowel beat my $40 trowel on a 3-course arch in Billings

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reed.eva•6d ago

Serious question, who else still lays block to a line instead of a laser level

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jana_davis90•7d ago

That Tuesday I laid 600 brick with a sprained wrist and the mortar finally cooperated

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bell.taylor•8d ago

Showerthought: spent 12 years buttering the whole brick before I watched an old timer do it

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ivan_fisher99•9d ago

Chose mortar mix bags over mixing my own sand and lime for a 900 brick garden wall in Tulsa

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elizabeth_gonzalez•9d ago

Dropped $340 on a used mortar mixer and it saved my back on a 900 brick job

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kelly_coleman61•10d ago

Laid my 50,000th brick last Friday in Toledo and it kind of messed with my head

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bettymurphy•11d ago

Tried laying my first curved garden wall with a string line instead of eyeballing it

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oliver523•12d ago

Watched a crew in Tulsa lay a 40 foot wall without a string line and I'm rethinking my whole setup

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derek_dixon78•13d ago

Watched a wall in Akron go from leaning mess to dead straight in 2 days thanks to one old guy and a level

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nora535•15d ago

A mason named Sal in Newark taught me to butter a block with the trowel tip, not the middle, and my joints quit squeezing out

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daniel_walker8•15d ago

Found out a mason in Des Moines laid 1,200 brick in one day and I can't stop thinking about it

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sagea88•19d ago

Watch your mortar mix when it's 90 degrees out, learned that on the Maple St job last week

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finley_lopez98•19d ago

My corner lead popped loose on the Smith Street job and I had to redo 3 courses

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skyler_kim15•20d ago

Appreciation post: hit 100,000 brick laid this season and it was a number that made me stop

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