Weeping Mortar, ARGHHH!!!

So you may have been able to tell from the pictures of our last post, but we have a special kind of mortar around our bricks. This is called weeping mortar and it is the absolute stupidest thing ever invented. Our thought is that some mason tried to make some short-cuts and save time so didn't finish the job. He then decided to put a name to it so he could pretend that it is suppose to look like that and look good. For some reason, several houses in our neighborhood look like this. We decided to rebel and smooth it out. First of all, this is not the funnest job in the world. Took most of the day to just get the sun room done. Will spend all Sunday trying to get the outside finished. We started out with a hammer and hand chisel. What a chore. Finally Hazen rented an electric chisel and it started going much faster. Be warned, these pics are pretty boring as they are mostly of a brick wall.

Needed lots of breaks. Hand chiseling this stuff off the wall isn't easy on the hands or the back.

Finally got smart with the electric chisel.

This also makes quite the mess.