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Walking through the new civic center downtown and the brickwork is... interesting.
They used this super thin, almost paper-like mortar joint on the entire facade. It looks clean from a distance, but up close you can see how fragile it is, with hairline cracks already forming. Has anyone else worked with that style and found a way to keep it from failing so fast?
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the_shane3d agoMost Upvoted
Totally agree, it looks slick but won't last! Ben402 is right about the winter making it worse. I saw the same thing on that new condo building on Maple.
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ben4023d ago
That super thin joint is a real problem on a lot of new builds. I saw it on the library expansion over on 5th, and the cracks were worse after just one winter. Did the architects specify a special mortar mix, or did the masons just go with a standard type S and rake it back too far?
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