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Table of Contents

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  1. Administrative
    1. Message from the President
    2. Request for Best Practice Review
    3. Request for Best Practice Review Form
  2. Equipment
    1. **Mortar Board Guidelines**
    2. Hoisting for Others
    3. Re-Fueling Gas Saw
      1. Saw Pump Priming
      2. Winter Wet Saw Enclosure
    4. Fair Weather Mixing Station Set-Up
    5. Fair Weather Dual Aggregate Mixing Station
    6. Foul Weather Mixing Station Set-Up
    7. Foul Weather Dual Aggregate Mixing Station Set-Up
    8. Assembly Instructions for Scaffold Access Stair
    9. Mud Tub Handling
    10. Slab Edge Access Gate
    11. Folding a Tarp
    12. Wrapping an Extension Cord
    13. Preparation of Equipment
    14. Laborer Supply Bucket
    15. Power Washer
    16. Cleaning Foot Plank
    17. Rubber Roofing for Covering Material
    18. 2-Way Radios
    19. Electric Blanket Storage
  3. Material
    1. Chipped Block
    2. Leftover Materials
    3. Saw Cut Split Face Unit
    4. Saw Cut Units at Control Joints/Expansion Joints
    5. Site Storage of Brick
    6. Mortar Mixing Procedure
    7. Masonry Product Patch Kit
  4. Installation
    1. **Jointing Backside of Masonry Wall**
    2. **Inside Corner Jointing**
    3. Pressure Bar Installation
    4. Full Head Joints
    5. **Hollow Metal Frames**
      1. Hollow Metal Frames – Future Installation
    6. **Electrical Box Installation**
    7. Jointing of Regular Block
    8. Proper Installation of Mineral Wool
    9. Expansion Joints in Brick Walls
    10. CJs in Block Walls
    11. Tooling Split Face Block
    12. Roof Reglet Receiver Flashing
      1. RRRF Drawing
    13. Top of Wall Procedure
    14. Horizontal Rebar Through Control Joints
    15. Installation of SS Flashing
    16. Clean When Green
    17. Wall Completion
    18. Base Bed Joints
    19. Bearing Plate Installation
    20. Grout Slurry on Walls
    21. Production Preparation
    22. Spot-N-Trot
    23. Keeping Expansion Joints Clean
    24. **Installing Weep Holes**
    25. **Spotting a Trig**
    26. Toothing Out Brick and Block in Existing Walls
    27. Adjacent Dissimilar Masonry Materials
    28. Pointing & Patching CMU Walls
  5. Restoration
    1. **Tuckpointing**
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