> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitch wilds
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:27 PM
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> Subject: Que Splodged? (Actual HP content)
> 
> 
> From a collegue:
> "Has anyone ever heard the term "splodged" in regard to 
> masonry? '...brick with splodged joints...' "
> 
> Could it be a mortar joint that purposely oozes out over the 
> face of the brick, sometimes seen on 1920s textured brick 
> houses to add to the quaintness factor?  I recall that one of 
> the guys at the Lyndhurst crafts training program years and 
> years ago referred to it as a "Snots Joint", but there must 
> be a more refined name.

A discussion of this mortar effect on Forum-L called it "weeping
mortar." It was especially common during the 1950s, which was the
context for the query that started the discussion.

Don't know what splodged is....

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