Engineering bricks

[Nitell]

Hello guys.

Building materials are expensive so I am looking to buy engineering bricks from the cheapest supplier. Sth London, Croydon, Surrey area.

Any ideas please ?.

 

[tomfe]

Google builders merchants and ring around for some prices, should be around 50p a brick.

Or wait outside a building site and offer services for bricks as payment.

 

[tony1851]

Instead of buying engineering bricks (expensive) why not just buy ordinary (cheaper) bricks?

 

[Ian H]

Or wait outside a building site and offer services for bricks as payment.

They might throw a few at him

 

[^woody^]

I saw these top tips on Martin Lewis's money saving site ......

Turn bricks on edge and save approx 1/3.

Build the extension smaller and save pro-rata.

Buy a house with an existing extension.

Move to Durham where the bricks are free with every 5kg of coal.

 

[Nitell]

Thanks for all ideas.

It will be a cavity wall, bricks on external leaf, so I thought that, like hollow concrete blocks, filled with concrete, engineering bricks would make a stronger wall.

 

[tony1851]

Thanks for all ideas.

It will be a cavity wall, bricks on external leaf, so I thought that, like hollow concrete blocks, filled with concrete, engineering bricks would make a stronger wall.

It depends; what are you building?

 

[Nitell]

A double garage.