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Caught myself buttering joints after the mortar set, 4 years in
I was laying a garden wall in Austin last month and realized I'd been smearing mortar on dry joints the whole time, just tidying the look instead of actually bedding the bricks. A passerby who used to lay stone in the 70s pointed at my trowel and asked why I was frosting a cake, that's when the light bulb hit. Anyone else have a habit that took an outsider calling it out to fix?
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averymitchell22d ago
The muscle memory thing is wild because your hands keep doing the old motion even after your brain knows better, kinda like how I still reach for a corded drill sometimes. What got me was realizing the frosted look actually hides bad bedding, so it never looks wrong from the outside until something shifts.
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