Home Page Login Rentals Add your Listing All The Articles
Properties For Sale Estaplace Contacts About Us House Exchange Real Estate Forum
ESTAPLACE.COM REAL ESTATE - FREE LISTING SERVICE - is an accommodation and real estate directory, where real estate property owners or real estate agencies connect with vacationers and home buyers worldwide. If you are a seller, you can add listings in few seconds, and if you are a buyer you can search listings to find your dream property!

Search by keywords or by a location.

You can also browse our web directory.

    back to the list and search form for newsgroup's messages


Nesgroup address: alt.building.construction - Date & Time for the message: /

Author of the message: "rider89"

Title of the message:
Re: Salvaging old bricks?

Text of the message:
I once watched a crew taking down a large brick building and palletizing the
(cleaned) bricks.  They were using plain pieces of steel about 3/8 thick X
2" X about 15" long.  A little tape wrapped around one end for a grip.
Probably the more heft the better within limits of your wrist strength.
Made myself one of these and it was way faster than a chisel.  Cradle the
brick in one hand and give the piece of mortar a whack at a low shear angle.
Sometimes an entire mortar slab would come off with one hit.
If you aren't in a hurry to use the brick, the residue seems to be self
cleaning to a large extent if you stack them out in the weather over the
winter, assuming you're somewhere that has wet, freezing winters.
bill
"Mark" <nospam@thanksanyway.org> wrote in message
news:od6dnUDY4MRsFETfRVn-rg@w-link.net...

> Any tips on salvaging old bricks? I can chisel off most of the mortar,



[ USA -> CHICAGO - 19/May/2025 19:38:17 ] We have 24806 properties listed. Yesterday traffic on Estaplace Real Estate was: 7165 unique visitors with 262196 page views. To view more statistics about Estaplace Real Estate, click here.

We accept, payments through bank wire, credit cards with PayPal for advanced services! PayPal Gateway Visa Card MasterCard American Express Diners Card Jcb Credit Card PostaPay Maestro Pago Bancomat Hosted by Frazionabile.it

Estaplace.com is a worldwide and international real estate directory, with thousands of real estate listings, divided into countries and regions. All material, the structure, and the layout on this site are © Copyright of Estaplace.com by Ceglia Giovanni located in Trento N. 74 Pal. I Street in Pagani(Salerno) - Italy. Italian Business Code: Partita IVA N. IT03972320653, registered in the "Camera di Commercio" of Salerno.

Estaplace.com is one the Ceglia Giovanni projects, started on 20 July 2005, and online since 20 August as a real estate platform for listings, mainly operating on the Italian and American/English market in the Internet, Estaplace would like to become the point of referiment for home sellers and home buyers, a site where private owners or real estate agencies can have the possibility to show their offers to the world. Estaplace.com is only one of the Giovanni Ceglia's sites. Everyday Giovanni Ceglia works to improve new Internet tools and services for online marketing and business. Estaplace.com will become the biggest portal for real estate business and investments online.