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stuart noble wrote:
On most of the walls I've worked on round here you can rake out 1" with
your finger, and 1/4" of mortar perched on top of something that
unstable would be purely cosmetic.

In some ways, it only is. It certainly shouldn't be structural in the
cases of shallow footings where there is bound to be some movement. It's
only to form a waterproof seal.

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