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Roger that makes sense. I will practice mortaring! At least mortar and blocks are cheap and good exercise.

IT is a 600 sq ft house small one story house. I looked up IRC 2021 and it said I could use solid 6" block (since it will have full lateral support floor platform at 32" with wood frame above). They don't sell solid block here so I bought hollow 6" CMU with the plan to grout the entire...

phamENG, You're right. I apologize. I just felt frustrated. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks phamENG for your comment. I have a really dumb question. Lets say a wall was built, core filled in all cores, and then all the mortar was chipped out. Would you expect the core fill hold the blocks in place?

Howdy, I am a dumbass DIY stem wall builder with a question regarding the function of grout in a stem wall. The stem wall is 4 courses high of 6 inch cmu (32" high, max 16" of unbalanced backfill). I used a spec type S mortar mix on my stem wall but it seems to have poor adhesion to the block...