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Shoutout to the old timer who told me about lime mortar yesterday
I was on a job in Cincinnati last week replacing some brick on a house from the 1920s and a retired mason walked by and said my mix was way too hard for that old soft brick. He showed me how they used to batch lime mortar by feel and it blew my mind how much I never learned about this stuff. Anybody else ever get schooled by an old timer on something you thought you knew?
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lane.cameron6d agoProlific Poster
Dude that's awesome! I had a similar thing happen when I was pointing a stone foundation on a 1800s farmhouse. This guy in his 70s walked up and told me I was ruining the stone by using modern cement because it traps moisture. He showed me how to tell when the lime is slaked right by the smell and the color. Felt like I was learning a secret language or something. Still think about that guy every time I mix mortar now.
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