I am just finishing up one using bricks left over from a house addition and it took about 130 bricks. One thing I did was started the mailbox down in the ground a little bit to practice on the first couple of courses before i got to where people could see it. Please take the time to clean morta...
I just got done building a brick mailbox myself and this video was very helpful. People don't realize how hard of work this is. The video was helpful to me to try to get a mortar consistency that I could work with. Who cares about the mixer strap and that mortar is easy to clean off with acid....
stop with the f-words.