Bricks question!

[EricP]

How many to a pallet and roughly how much delivered?

If it's a daft question, blame Raden, he set me up for DIY brickying!

Cheers

[Mary Fisher]

Doesn't the number per pallet depend on the size of the bricke?

(assuming a standard pallet)

I'll blame himforanything.

Spouse got some bricks from the recycling centre (aka tip) the other day and there are hardly two which match - and they were mortared together!

Mary

[EricP]

Now you are confusing me! They are red, sort of squarish, and you build houses with them.

I just got rid of tons of the old ones. I kept picking them up and saying it looked ok, just to have it taken away and chucked in the skip, by a muttering helper. I had spent hours cleaning them with a brick hammer. :(((

[Mary Fisher]

So you see, Eric, you don't need a pallet, just find a skip and a muttering helper.

By the way, we needed old ones because new ones have huge frogs or they're full of holes. We wanted solid Yorkshire bricks.

Mary

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[biff]

Now if only it had been lime mortar the bricks could have been cleaned easily.

[Cicero]

============== Wickes quote 452 bricks per pallet, so that's probably a standard. £154.58 - facing bricks, £128.82 - engineering bricks, £120.23 - common bricks - all with free deivery subject to conditions.

A builders' merchants will probably be slightly cheaper and they will deliver in quantities less than a pallet.

Cic.

[EricP]

CHeers :))

[Nick Finnigan]

see the variety of prices and pallet sizes

see the sort of choices your helper has to consider

you really want some old fashioned bricks in proper sizes.

[Mary Fisher]

Furness bricks are lovely but isn't it better to have bricks made locally, which reflect the character of your own area?

Mary

[chris French]

In message , Mary Fisher writes

Surely it depends on where they are going. A nice local handmade brick may look very out of place in say a garden feature or wall if the house is built with a modern brick from who knows where?

[Mary Fisher]

That too.

Mary

[Nick Finnigan]

How local is local? Lots of houses around here have Accrington Stock bricks (or similar), which are no longer made, and woould not have been much closer anyway. St. Anne's might be closer, but I've doubt they make smooth reds there any more. I have no idea where EricP lives.

[Mary Fisher]

From the nearest brickworks which uses local clay.

And I've no idea where you live :-)

Mary

[Nick Finnigan]

Lancashire, the same as Furness. How far are you prepared to let them deliver (i.e. where are the other brickworks using local clay) ?

[Mary Fisher]

I'm not challenging, it's my opinion that local materials are more suitable for building than others. In Leeds I wouldn't use flint, for example, in Norfolk I wouldn't use millstone grit. Or Furness bricks, come to that :-)

Mary

[Nick Finnigan]

No I don't. How do you suggest I, or anyone else, does the research?

But why do you suggest that Furness Bricks are not made locally?

[Mary Fisher]

LOL! I didn't know you lived in Lancashire until you said so :-)

Mary

[Rick]

Is it better still to forget bricks, and use stone in random size & shape picked from local fields ?

Rick

[Nick Finnigan]

Not when you live near the Mersey. Or the lower Ribble/Wyre/Lune.

[Mary Fisher]

:-) It could be argued that it's more environmentally friendly and it was done before bricks were made or affordable. Takes an awful lot more work though, needs more skill and the local planning folk might object with their passion for uniformity. There are advantages, I'd prefer it.

Mary