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Block Mason

Brick Layer

EMPLOY participants can perform some or all of these functions:

• Read sketches and blueprints to calculate materials required
• Lay out wall patterns or foundations
• Mix mortar or grout and pour or spread mortar or grout on marble slabs, stone, or foundation
• Remove wedges, fill joints between stones, finish joints between stones and smooth the
  mortar to an attractive finish
• Set stone or marble in place, according to layout or pattern
• Shape, trim, face and cut marble or stone preparatory to setting
• Smooth, polish, and bevel surfaces
• Dig trench for foundation of monument
• Line interiors of molds and fill
• Position mold along guidelines
• Remove sections of monument from truck bed, and guide stone onto foundation
• Repair cracked or chipped areas of stone or marble
• Remove rough or defective spots from concrete
• Set vertical and horizontal alignment of structures
• Construct and install prefabricated masonry units
• Lay brick to build shells of chimneys and smokestacks or to line or reline industrial furnaces, kilns, boilers and similar installations
• Replace broken or missing masonry units in walls or floors
• Restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures