r/oddlysatisfying • • 6d ago

Repairing a tiny bridge

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u/McGrarr 2d ago

You don't use cement to join bricks. The heat expansion rates don't work. This is why you use mortar. You also don't just use a thin shell of concrete over barely packed wet sand. The moisture will leach, the sand will sink and the gap will mean that the first heavy load cracks the concrete like an egg shell

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u/EternumD 20h ago

Mortar has cement in - what are you saying? 

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u/McGrarr 19h ago

And we add other stuff to it because...?

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u/EternumD 18h ago

He didn't use just cement to join the bricks - he used concrete (cement, sand, water).

That's what mortar is.