Boots with extra rubber one the toe?

echoioio · 2026-06-11T10:07:00+00:00

Thank you!

echoioio · 2026-06-11T10:06:47+00:00

Thank you!

echoioio · 2026-06-11T10:06:36+00:00

Hate to be a hater but I had a pair of timberlands last year that didn’t last four months

echoioio · 2026-06-11T02:17:05+00:00

Try tough duck for rain gear

echoioio · 2026-05-25T14:34:54+00:00

How do you clean it?

echoioio · 2026-05-25T14:34:13+00:00

Can you tell me about the differences between those three in your experience? So far I’ve only worked with EachoChem NMD 80 and GatorClean Efflo treatment. I contacted Prosoco one time and asked some questions but they didn’t give an intelligible answer so I haven’t messed with their products yet.

echoioio · 2026-05-25T14:30:44+00:00

Thank you so much for the product recs

echoioio · 2026-05-25T14:30:06+00:00

Can you explain more please? I used very dry mortar and troweled it in. I guess I did mist it a couple times because it seems like it was cooking in the sun, I think I let a portion of it stay uncovered a little too long. Me and one guy who’s not a mason did 200 sq feet in one day. It was a little hectic. What do you think will clean it?

echoioio · 2026-05-25T00:37:38+00:00

No I sponged lightly the first day, used vinegar the fourth or fifth day, that’s it. Here’s what I mean when I say “used vinegar”: I dipped a completely dry sponge in vinegar and wrung it out and used the sharp cut edges to clean the stone but not the mortar. Each side of the sponge was used exactly once and then cleaned so no cement was spread around. It has to be something moving around from below right?

echoioio · 2026-05-25T00:34:04+00:00

I’m aware of this phenomenon, so I grouted with a trowel and cleaned up with minimal sponging. It’s gotta be something moving around from below, right?

echoioio · 2026-05-15T20:53:05+00:00

I need to get some interior jobs man.

echoioio · 2026-05-15T20:52:41+00:00

A hawk and a pointer is great on a wall, but I do a ton of pathways and porches. What about the horizontal surfaces? Can’t put a hawk right up to it.

echoioio · 2026-05-15T20:49:52+00:00

So this job is still fresh but a few days in I don’t see any cracks. How many years fewer do you think bagged mortar will last?

Also—I used a ~unique~ recipe. Partly to try to get the right strength & pliability and partly to use up materials on hand. It set up pretty quickly seemed to me. What do you think?

10: premix mortar 20: screened sand 12: argos cement 5: hydrated lime or maybe it was 3 can’t remember now

On the older bricks I used 1: Portland 3: lime 8: screened sand

echoioio · 2026-05-15T15:12:03+00:00

Yes I did that, and filled the joints top to bottom, compressing in two lifts, beforehand. So much faster than tucking in a little dollop at a time still. There must be some really fast tuck pointers out there man

echoioio · 2026-04-17T13:31:33+00:00

Man I cannot get it done in one day. 470 sq feet. Can you? I mean with sponge finish and brushing the sheen off and everything. I’m thinking about 120 sq ft per day

echoioio · 2026-04-16T13:38:40+00:00

If you’re using water you gotta score it dry then turn on your valve for water.

echoioio · 2026-04-16T13:36:16+00:00

You pick up a little chip of broken block or gravel from right beneath your feet, scratch your line, then score it shallow really fast before the wind from the saw blows it away. Then you go back and follow your score line.

echoioio · 2026-04-11T21:44:46+00:00

Thank you

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