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Old foreman from Detroit told me to wet the bricks, I thought he was nuts
He said soak them overnight or the mortar sets too fast and you get cracks by spring. I tried it on a garden wall last week and yeah, the joints came out way cleaner than my last dry-lay job in Lansing. Anyone else trust the old soak method or do you just work faster?
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spencer_thomas418d ago
Man that Detroit foreman was doing you a solid and most guys never get told that until they learn the hard way. I fought cracks for two seasons before an old timer on a job in Toledo showed me the soak trick, and the difference is night and day, the brick stops sucking the water out of the mortar so it cures slow and strong instead of flash drying. Takes longer up front but I stopped going back to fix hairline cracks every spring, so it saves me time in the long run anyway.
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