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Bo7a@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
This is infuriating for a very specific-to-me reason.
For the life of me I can not find anywhere that will just sell me ‘plain red bricks’. But I keep seeing them everywhere like they are worthless trash.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Sadly I called these folks in the spring and they were not very forthcoming with any details about pricing and were quite dismissive of someone who only wanted one pallet. Maybe their sales team had a bad day that day, but it turned me off very quickly.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You don’t have local red clay do you?
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
None that we have found on our little 6acres.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah red bricks are a classic but the color of bricks is tied to mineral composition in local clays. If you’ve got nice ferrous clays nearby you can get some of that classic English and new English red brick without having to ship it. Meanwhile elsewhere you may have something like Chicago’s yellow brick, or New Mexico’s “use a different material if you don’t want to pay out the ass shipping bricks across the continent”.
Local architecture styles will use local materials and barring some really weird situations (like that part of Arizona where the local material was petrified wood) that’ll be the cheap and abundant resource available to you. Though there’s always concrete