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TIL the wet saw trick my old foreman showed me in 2009 actually holds up on hard brick
I always figured soaking brick before cutting was just something old guys did to look busy. Last month we had a job in Dayton with 4,000 hard reds and my blade was chipping the corners on every other cut. My foreman said soak them for 10 minutes first and I laughed, but after two courses of ugly edges I tried it. The cuts came out clean almost every time and my blade lasted the whole job. What other old school tricks did you all write off before you ate crow on them?
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hayden5878d ago
Soaking for 10 minutes is the move but nobody ever mentions the follow up, which is letting them drip dry a minute before they hit the saw. If they go in soaked the water just carries the dust into a paste and it gums up your tray. I learned that one the hard way on a fireplace surround, had slurry everywhere and the blade was skating. Also keep a sponge handy to wipe the top edge right before the cut, that's where the chipping starts. The other one that got me was flipping the brick so the cut runs from the face down instead of up through it. Sounds like nonsense but it saved my corners on the last batch of reds I ran.
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