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I've been mixing my mortar too wet for years and a cracked chimney finally showed me
Had a call back on a chimney I built in Springfield two summers ago, and the freeze-thaw cycles made a vertical crack right through the center. An old guy I brought in to look at it just grabbed a handful of my mix, squeezed it, and said 'Kid, this is soup. It's got no backbone.' I mean, I always thought a wetter mix was easier to work with. How do you guys judge the right slump for exterior work in a cold climate?
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laura21112d ago
The old guy is right. I did the same thing on a garden wall and the first hard frost turned it into a puzzle. You want it just wet enough to hold together in a ball without crumbling, but dry enough that it doesn't leave slurry on your gloves.
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campbell.robin12d ago
Exactly. That's the whole secret to most things.
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