Yep. Maia strength. He can live with that.

Gimli indicates one of the corners of the pit. "That'd be the best spot for that one; you've found the one I meant for a corner-stone, Mistress Sandsmark. Set it there, if you'd be so good?"

He sets his part of the equipment aside and fetches instead the first container of mortar he's mixed up, and the tools to spread it with.