/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2887133]

Can I use discarded street stones as bricks to build up walls? Or is there something about them that make them improper for that usage and only good for flooring?

[Anonymous No.2887138]

>>2887133
Follow up, what’s the scrap price for railroad tracks?

[Anonymous No.2887154]

>>2887133
the difficulties would be that they are not ideally uniform, you want uniform bricks to minimize mortar for cost and strength.
the other thing is setts are normally squareish, which makes bonding courses difficult.
the answer really is yes you could but the difficulty depends on the type of wall. garden feature? sure who cares. 2 story house? good luck with building control.

[Anonymous No.2887175]

>>2887154
I was thinking 1 story tiny house or shed, being that this is the only reliable manner in which I can get blocks of stone in my country. No one builds with stone anymore, you can only ever get tiny crushed rocks for mixing with cement. Nice blocks of stone for building something akin to pic related is impossible unless you happen to run into an old structure being demolished

[Anonymous No.2889467]

>>2887133
Bricks for walls typically have "cores" i.e. holes in the brick, the purpose of which is for mortar to get caught in which interlocks the bricks once set. Cores can also be used to place reinforcing bars.

Walls can be built without cored bricks/blocks but the lateral wall strength is significantly reduced.

[Anonymous No.2889803]

>>2887133
Aren't pavement stones tapered? Sort of muffin shaped, with the bottom being flat and smaller, the sides tapering outwards and the top rounded.

You'd need a lot of mortar to hold them and depending on their orientation they'd fall out under pressure.

Also they use particularly tough stones so your wall would be very heavy and it'd be a lot of work to break or cut smaller pieces.

[Anonymous No.2889822]

>>2887133
they use to use literal random rocks to make castles, I think you can make a wall with pavers

[Anonymous No.2889824]

>>2887133
since brick is only used as facade and isn't structural, go ahead and use whatever brick you want if it gives you the look you desire.

[Anonymous No.2890205]

>>2889824
>brick is only used as facade
that's a uniquely American phenomenon.

[Anonymous No.2890380]

>>2890205
For good reason.

[Anonymous No.2890394]

>>2890205
We call that block in the US. They're still built, but typically have rebar inside and get grouted with concrete poured inside. Its... a skill for sure. Makes all the MEP trades work a little harder, because we don't roto-hammer out channels for our pipes here. We usually place our pipes within the block before the concrete grouting.

[Anonymous No.2890606]

>>2890394
Clay blocks are not a product available on the American market.
A tool as in pic related is used to cut the channels out. Same wouldn't really work on American style blocks because you would be severing the web, whereas the European blocks have a continuous cellular structure.

[Anonymous No.2890631]

>>2890205
>that's a uniquely American phenomenon.
You know that we know that you're blatantly lying, right?

[Anonymous No.2890638]

>>2890631
Where else do they only use bricks for facade and not as structure?

[Anonymous No.2890647]

>>2890606
why would you cut slots in your structural material

[Anonymous No.2890673]

>>2890647
it just werks

[Anonymous No.2890694]

>>2890673
There is so much wrong in this corner.

[Anonymous No.2890757]

>>2890694
Care to explain?