The way most guys stack corners is costing them time and straight walls

I've been watching new guys on sites around Nashville for the last few years and nearly every one of them builds their leads way too high before filling in. You only need 3 or 4 courses up before you start laying the rest, otherwise your corner gets wobbly and you fight to fix it later. Saw a crew lose a whole morning because their lead was 8 bricks tall and had shifted half an inch. Anybody else notice this slowing down the whole job?

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kaib189d ago

Man that's rough, an 8 brick lead shifting half an inch would be a nightmare to fix. Always rough watching guys learn that lesson the hard way.

simon_coleman9d ago

Reminds me of a time we were setting up a retaining wall and one guy kept stacking without checking his level. Whole thing started leaning by the third course and we had to tear it all down. Took twice as long as it should've.