68340 | Things I learned that they don't tell you on YouTube.
1 Don't have your mortar to thick, it doesn't let you tap you brick down, ect.
2 Even though Google says the mortar can be used for up to 1 hour +. Don't leave any of it in the cement mixer. Came back in 20 min. to get the other 1/2 bag I mixed and had to scape it off the walls of the mixer. lol.
3 Don't cut your bricks to size until you need them. Cut a bunch yesterday so I would be ready. Wrong size. Only 8 bricks, but still.
4 1 hour at the gym every day, working as hard as you can will not get you in shape to lay bricks. Up and down and up and down.
5 I would rather put in new 6 wire fence with crooked hedge post all day than lay these bricks.
6 I liked that tar paper with tap on the edge. I could mark out my brick spacing on the tape.
7 I put a 2 ft x 4 ft board along the sides to let the mortar fall on instead into the dirt.
8 Tomorrow I rest. Hope to finish the top row on Friday.
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