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I spent about an hour this afternoon cleaning up 100 bricks ( about a 3rd of what I dragged home). It was easy to see why a 45 year old chimney failed. The mortar was not mixed consistently. Some of it was hard and adhered well to the bricks. Much was dislodged with a single glancing blow. With those ones, it was not unusual to have loose material run out of the holes once the " mortar " had been knocked off.
Yikes!
Best
Les
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Best
Les
My train of thought has been replaced by a bumper car.
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