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Vent: my old boss said pointing brick with a jointer was a waste of time, I still think he was dead wrong
Back in 2019 I was on a job in Fort Wayne, repointing a chimney for this older guy named Ray. He had been laying brick for like 35 years. I was finishing the joints with a jointer like my dad taught me, taking my time to get that concave profile. Ray walked up and said "why you wasting your day on that, just strike it with the trowel and move on, nobody looks at the joints." I told him the joint is what keeps the water out and it is the first thing anyone sees. He laughed and walked off. I finished that chimney my way and drove by it a couple weeks ago, 6 years later, joints still tight, no cracks, no water stains. I have seen his trowel struck joints on other jobs turn chalky and crumble within 2 winters. I know a lot of guys here will say speed pays the bills and the customer never notices, but I think that is how you get callbacks. Am I wrong for still taking the extra hour to run a jointer on repoint work, or is Ray right and I am just slow?
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