Bricks

[123everton]

I see some companies are selling reclaimed bricks, how do they do it? I have reclaimed several hundred bricks to do a job and found it took hours and was very labour intensive, these people deal in 1000s they can't be stood in their yard whacking away with their hammers all day, can they?

[teash]

reclaimed items fetch big money, and especially if 'your' made to build an extension etc in a certain type of matching brick.
And don`t forget the owners of such yards get the bricks etc for free (well near me they do) so anything after wages is profit

[123everton]

I know, but believe me it takes forever to clean them off there's got to be a better way.

[thundercrack]

our local builders merchant was selling "new" reclaimed bricks. they were made with a sawdust content so they could be tumbled to knock the edges off so they looked like old bricks. winter came, the bricks got damp and froze, the sawdust expanded and wallop, the brick face started coming off. so beware.

[BillyBB]

Yep, sometimes at demolition sites there are teams of poor blighters who sit knocking mortar off bricks all day.