Ever spend a whole day on a corner that shouldve taken an hour?

I was laying a herringbone pattern walkway last month and the first corner section just would not line up. I must have pulled and reset those first 30 bricks maybe 5 times thinking I was off on my string line or my cuts were crooked. It ended up taking me close to 6 hours to get that one corner right when I had planned maybe 90 minutes tops. The problem was I was rushing the dry layout and not checking my 90s with a square every course. What do you guys do when a simple detail turns into a whole day nightmare? Do you stubborn it out or pull everything and start fresh?

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hayden7208d ago

Oh man, you hit one of my sore spots with this one. I've been there way too many times, and it always makes me wonder why we keep fighting it instead of just ripping it all up sooner. So my question for you is this: what was the moment you finally realized it was the rushing that was the problem, and not the bricks or the layout itself? Like, was there a specific thing that clicked when you stepped back and looked at it, or did you just get so frustrated that you forced yourself to slow down?

zara_perez628d ago

Oh I'm gonna take the other side here. Sometimes that rushing energy is exactly what you need to see the real problems fast, you know? If you slow down too much you just end up staring at bad bricks longer instead of learning the lesson and moving on.