RECLAIMED BRICKS
With over 30 years of experience in reclamation Deery Demolition ensure that maximum yield of period materials and architectural antiques are salvaged from demolition of Georgian, Victorian and pre-war 20th Century buildings. Main areas of salvage are bricks, roof tiles, timber floorboards and joists and architectural antiques. We process these items quickly for resale into the reclamation trade and sometimes private customers. The speed at which these items are processed does not affect the high quality of the finished product, and we have customers throughout the UK ready to take them off our hands as soon as they are available
Using recycled bricks can be a very good solution for a build, as it reduces the cost of materials and the carbon footprint of the project. Bricks are also a very sturdy building product, and can be easily reused in builds of all types.
Reclaimed bricks are bricks that are rescued from old buildings and cleaned up. Their edges are typically worn and irregular and they may have remnants of mortar due to their original use. Good quality reclaimed bricks only require 2 workable sides, 1 bond and 1 stretch.
“EVERY TIME YOU REUSE 2,000 OLD BRICKS INSTEAD OF NEW BRICKS,
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Reclaimed bricks are bricks that are rescued from old buildings and cleaned up. Their edges are typically worn and irregular and they may have remnants of mortar due to their original use. Good quality reclaimed bricks only require 2 workable sides, 1 bond and 1 stretch.
CALCULATING BRICKS
One aspect of brickwork which often causes confusion is estimating how many bricks or blocks will be required for a planned wall – you don’t want to run out before you finish but you also don’t want a pallet load of material left unused when you have finished. Making these estimates is fairly straightforward using just a few figures.
HALF BRICK WALL
A half brick wide wall requires 60 bricks per square metre.
So the first stage is just to measure the height and length (including any piers) of the wall in metres, multiply them together to give the area in square metres, and then multiply this by 60.
So the total number of bricks for the wall is:
wall height (metres) x wall length (metres) x 60 = number of bricks
ONE BRICK WALL
A one brick wide wall requires 120 bricks per square metre.
So the first stage is just to measure the height and length of the wall in metres, multiply them together to give the area in square metres, and then multiply this by 120.
So the total number of bricks for the wall is:
wall height (metres) x wall length (metres) x 120 = number of bricks
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