We had a small stone column to tear down and put back up because a car ran into it!! Fine by me no one was hurt and we got more work! I did a time-lapse for this video because is tedious work. You have to hammer or cut the top or bottom of every rock so that they stack nicely. Comment what you want to see next!

Thin cut brick or stone is more commonly known as “lick and stick” brick. Today we are laying lich and stick bricks! The lightest masonry activity we will ever have! There is a lot of preparation work that goes into lick and stick before you can ever stick your first brick! You have to install your skim coat. Your skim coat is made up of 3 things water proof netting, wire mesh (or wire lathe, they are the same thing) and mortar. You first need to staple the water proofing to the wall as flat as you can. The flatter you can get your skim coat the flatter your wall! After you install your water proofing you can nail on the wire mesh so the mortar has something to grab. When the mesh is hung it’s time to mix mortar and start skimming! Hold your horses!! You have your wire mesh on and mortar to work with however you cannot just start anywhere on the wall because plywood walls are never true. The plywood will have “waves” in between the studs. To fix this you have to hang what is called a story pole from either end so you can hang a line to figure out exactly how much mortar to put on the wall. It will vary every time. I know the skim coat sounds complicated but it’s the easiest part of the job (just a lot of pieces.) I could make a video on the process if you guys would enjoy that? Now your skim coat is done, flat and dry you can start licking and sticking! Like I am in the video below. This is where your string line and flat skim coat come to in to play and show if you took your time or not! There is not much to explain in the process you just use a specific adhesive mortar to get the brick to have a better stick. Other than the specific mortar you are using not much changes in how you lay lick and stick versus full thickness brick. That’s the beauty of masonry it’s all repetition! Even though every job is different once you have your preparation work done masonry is all the same! I hope you learned something! Please comment and let me know how I can improve!

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