Watched a guy try to lay brick in 95 degree heat last week without wetting his line

I'm out on a job in Phoenix and this new crew shows up next door. The guy running the line was bone dry, mud was stiff after 10 minutes. By noon his third course was already pulling away because the line baked in. He had to tear out 30 feet of work. How do you even get through an apprenticeship without learning to keep your line damp?

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evan_stone9d ago

30 feet of brick in Phoenix heat with a dry line? That's not a mistake, that's a donation to the concrete gods. Bet he went through a whole case of Gatorade that day too, just standing there watching it crumble.

skyler_anderson659d ago

Is it though? I see people online acting like every brick wall in Arizona is a ticking time bomb but I've seen plenty of old masonry out there that's been standing for decades. Sure if you mix it wrong and let it dry too fast it's gonna crack but that's more about the guy not knowing what he's doing than the heat itself. You can work with hot weather if you keep the mud wet and use some ice in the water. I mean a whole case of Gatorade seems like a stretch, maybe two bottles and a lot of complaining. People love to exaggerate how hard things are in the desert like it's impossible to do anything there. Pretty sure the guy just messed up his mix and now everyone wants to blame the sun.