What is a Mortar Gun?
If you’re doing an Internet search for “mortar gun,” it will be more productive to try “grout gun” instead. Otherwise, you’ll be confronted with products that help you clean out an enemy machine gun nest. The type of mortar gun used for home renovation and repair has a much more modest aim — to ease the pain of applying grout between wall and floor tiles or bricks. Most of us who own homes have been there. The problem is figuring out a way to get a material the consistency of toothpaste to remain inside a narrow path without slopping over onto the tiles themselves. It’s difficult to find a trowel-type tool that can operate effectively in such close confines, and the result is often doing the same job twice — once to apply the grout, a second time to clean off the spatter. Among the devices that have been developed to deal with this sticky — literally — dilemma are the grout float and the grout bag. The former is a flat hand tool that aims to funnel grout into crevices more efficien
