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I've been digging up bricks and bringing them back here for over 20 years. It was worth it too, as a good amount of them are holding up my 'new' table.
I've been questioned many times on why I wrap them. Most of them are covered with dirt and/or mud when I find them. The wrapper makes them easier to lug home.
I've also been told that the 'wrapper' is not good for the bricks, as they can't breathe and will begin to dry rot. The wrappers tend to fall off in a couple years anyway. I'm using newspaper. Not plastic bags. I've never heard of bricks dry rotting anyway.
A Small Brick Victorian mixed-use building constructed in 1858 on Cooper Street in Woodbury,New Jersey
this is an entry for "GI brick's" 3 Sci-FI Weaponry contest. here's the link: www.flickr.com/groups/gibrickproductimagescontest_part_3/
even death can be beautiful. this is right outside my door.... we used to have begonia's there before winter.
(502), This is a piece of wood taken from an old broken Brick Hod to show how LBC branded their equipment in the early days.
10th Ave E
In the Roanoke Park neighborhood of Seattle, the Best Practice design team was asked to modernize & breathe life into a 100yo grand house for a sophisticated & stylish family w/ 2 young boys. Although the stately house had much to admire, at the time of purchase it was extremely outdated & in dire need of a refresh. We approached the complete interior remodel w/ a genuine sense of reverence for the original character & craftsman details, but w/ an aim for the unconventional. The design consisted of rigorous attention to clean & simple details for the new inserted design elements along w/ isolated & highly curated moments of color & material whimsy.
On the main floor, a warren of weird closets was removed to open up the kitchen to the dining room while keeping a vintage built in hutch that ties the two rooms together. The kitchen was completely updated, including all new cabinets & a new central island, but preserved an existing glass atrium to the west, creating a light filled & functional workspace w/ seating. The remainder of the main floor received a fresh coat of paint & the dining room was outfitted w/ a new toile wallpaper that works w/ both the original character of the house & the contemporary makeover.
Flowing up the beautiful, open stair w/ original stained glass windows to the upper level, an unused storage cabinet was transformed into a hidden reading nook w/ peek-a-boo view to the kitchen. The upstairs landing was reconfigured to suit our modern family, leading to the new master suite, new storage closet, & 2 new bedrooms w/ a Jack-&-Jill bathroom. The old sleeping porch, complete w/ original divided-light casement windows was transformed into a sunny home office that overlooks the backyard. While the layout is very contemporary in organization, great care was taken to highlight & sometimes contrast the existing & very traditional details of the house. Original doors, many of the windows, railings & hardware were carefully salvaged, cleaned & reused in conjunction w/ new elements.
Renovation in the basement included the removal of outdated heating system & cold storage in order to create a guest suite w/ ¾ bathroom, an enlarged laundry room & multi-use play area for the busy family.
These bricks have interesting marks on them, apparently from resting on other bricks in the kiln.
On my neighbors house in Toronto. Probably made at the Toronto Brick Works around 1910.
6 courses of stretchers between each header course. Approximately a Scottish Bond pattern.
St George subway station, Toronto.
Notice how every 6th row of bricks is turned sideways. I have long puzzled about this: I thought the standard was every 7th row. Anyway, it makes the double brick wall stronger.
Such rotated bricks are examples of "perpend bonds" or "cross joints"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpend_stone
Apparently, every 6th makes this a "Scottish Bond" wall.
When I built my first house in 1975, I bought a truck and trailer load of hand made bricks from Mexico. They are called Mexican Fire Bricks. When I started my second house in 1982, I bought another truck and trailer load to add to the remainder of the first load. Total, there were 44 pallets and about 40,000 bricks. I paid 8 cents a piece for them - delivered! I now have just one pallet left.
This lovely dignified house at no. 6 King Street, Bristol, is an instructive building. On either side of it the houses are timber-framed. Part of one of them is seen off right; the other, across Queen Charlotte Street, is the famous Llandoger Trow public house. They were built around 1665, but only 35 years later, in the first year or two of the 18th century, brick frontages rather like this one were going up around the corner in Queen Square.
Changes of fashion are often indicative of a change of thought. These orderly, harmonious façades were the expression of the Enlightenment; the Age of Reason had no place for the higgledy-piggledy chaos of timber-framed houses. Almost overnight they came to be thought hopelessly old-fashioned, almost barbarous, and large numbers were given new brick fronts.
If we look closely we can see that this is what has happened here. In fact this house is contemporary with its neighbours ...or perhaps I should say "these two houses", for the two gables and off-centre door suggest that two houses were combined behind the new frontage. The roofs would have had gables facing the street, like the house next door, but they must have been cut back at the time of the re-fronting. The generous provision of windows, the string courses between the floors and the quoins all of one size, are typical of about 1720. The fine shell hood over the door (see next photo) looks of an earlier style than the rest; it may have come from elsewhere ...but they are difficult things to date.
This earliest phase of Georgian domestic architecture is my favourite. It looks a little primitive compared to what came later but is, to me, more vigorous. Later on windows were fewer, further apart and more deeply recessed, with thinner glazing bars; but I prefer this effect, in which you seem to be looking at a screen of winking, gleaming glass panes, framed by smart, white-painted woodwork.
Just because... A brick and row of lights in a mall parking lot... Picked up the new iPhone 4S (I was on a 3GS). The camera is fantastic. The processing power is fantastic... And today's apps really push it (this was twisted with Nik's Snapseed, which I highly reco). To think that this much horsepower is available in a phone, including the ability to take, process, and post, all in a mall parking lot... Limitless bounds, excepting only one's imagination :)