My first attempt installing stone veneer didn't go so well as shown here.
I tried to skip a major important step. What was that you may be thinking? Well, if you guessed the scratch coat then you are correct! Yup, I tried to skip the scratch coat, not because I'm lazy, not because I couldn't afford the extra mortar but rather because I simply thought my idea & way would work. It was just a shot & I still think it WOULD work if I were to use a wetter mortar batch & let the rows dry some before I stacked one on top of another. I believe if I used a natural stone with a live edge rather then a brick veneer I would have been successful no doubt!.
No big deal, it was just a shot in the dark, no regrets here. I'll tell you what though, it was 99 degrees this day with a high humidity so that alone sorta made it a miserable day & a long one at that.

Eventually I did succeed , you can see my accomplishment in the following video PART 3
or see the full build in timelapse here :    • How To  Install Stone Veneer  TIME ...  
To see the previous video before this one here is part one:    • How I installed Stone / Brick Veneer ...  

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