When you finish a section, use the slicker to fill the horizontal joints (called the beds) connecting them.
The stone exterior is reminiscent of an early Italian Renaissance palace with the horizontal and vertical joints of the stones deeply grooved or rusticated.
If there are any horizontal joints, noggins have to be fixed between the uprights to take the edges of these boards.
The unique feature of this dam is the fact that none of the horizontal or vertical joints match up.
Further highlighting Wright's horizontal emphasis was the use of recessed horizontal mortar joints of contrasting color to the brick.
The first three horizontal joints are covered by iron bands supported on brackets and topped with fillets of concrete.
Columnar jointing is predominantly developed in these rocks, besides horizontal joints, which impart to the rocks bedded appearance.
Ashlar may be coursed, which involves lengthy horizontal courses of stone blocks laid in parallel, and therefore with continuous horizontal joints.
Another type of steel reinforcement, referred to as ladder-reinforcement, can also be embedded in horizontal mortar joints of concrete block walls.
After filling these, use the same technique to fill the horizontal joints.