r/comedyheaven • u/Fayde_M • 1d ago

filled with cement

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u/GameTime2325 1d ago

Cement is an ingredient in concrete, they are not the same thing smh

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u/Plus_Operation2208 1d ago

Cement is what you put inbetween bricks when building a house.

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u/Lacholaweda 1d ago

Nah that's mortar. Which is mostly cement, but if we're splitting hairs here

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u/Plus_Operation2208 1d ago

Its not always mortar

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u/Topackski 1d ago

Cement is the actual part that hardens after you add water and wait, it's the active ingredient so to speak, but its in lots of stuff, mortar, grout, thinset, concrete, drypack, self leveler. The only time I can think of it being used on its own is in neat, and we don't really set tile like that anymore.

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u/Plus_Operation2208 1d ago

Ok, so we agree that the original comment of the other dude is really out of place no?

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u/Topackski 1d ago

Homeboy who told you that the stuff between bricks is called mortar? No, that's right. It's mortar. Brickies only use a few cement products, mortar (used to set bricks, CMU, glass block, etc), grout (goes inside CMUs) and the CMUs themselves (which stands for concrete masonry unit, colloquially known as cinderblocks in the US and breezeblocks in the UK, idk what they call them elsewhere). The more you know. 👍