Roles

Top left: The first Grout Hog built and used by Lang Masonry Contractors in 1998.

Top right: Tony Goudreau, left, and Elio Stocchetti stand next to their invention, the E-Z Rod, which helps masons line up control joints.

Bottons: Rememb

MASON INVENTORS

"It took 10 years to create the Grout Hog," he says. "The reason it took so long was because I wasn't intending to invent anything. All I knew was that there had to be a better way to grout masonry walls. So I kept experimenting