Pro tip: I stopped soaking my bricks before laying and my mortar bond got way stronger
Everyone online says you gotta dunk every brick in a bucket of water first, but last Tuesday I laid a 12 foot wall in Fresno dry as a bone and the mortar grabbed tighter than anything I've done soaked. Soaking just makes em slide around and weakens the joint in my book. Anybody else lay dry or am I the only one who thinks the wet brick thing is overblown?