Does anyone make their own bricks for builds, is itcost eff?

[oliverg]

I was juts wondering if anybody has used or would use tools to make bricks on site and whether it would be cost effective?

 

[^woody^]

Do Screwfix sell any large kilns? Probably there is no demand

 

[merlin50]

you could grow your own trees and make your own timber

 

[RedHerring2]

There was a program on TV (Sky Discovery channels) a day or so ago, called "Victorian Christmas" or words to that effect.

It showed home made bricks process. It's a five day X 24 hour process just to fire them.
Then there's the collecting clay, needing it, throwing the bricks, leaving them to dry, transporting them to the kiln, building the kiln, collecting the fuel, etc.

 

[stuart45]

Do Screwfix sell any large kilns? Probably there is no demand

I picked up this Hoffman from the Yeovil branch last year.

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[joinerjohn]

Ahh the Hoffman Kiln. I remember emptying one of those at Prestongrange Brickworks one summer. It had been closed down quite a few years and we were opening up the kiln and handballing the fired bricks out of it and palleting them. Long hours, but great fun.

 

[IJWS15]

Used to live in Middlesborough . .

large areas of Linthorpe were built of bricks made on site from clay dug out of what became the cellars of the hosues.

130 years ago labour was cheap, they built the kiln on site (actually several) .

To do it for one house . . . . . . not economic.

Can you convince building control that the bricks will last and be strong enough? Wouldn't want the house to fall down at the first frost!

 

[merlin50]

so you buy bricks to build a kiln, about enough to build a house, make the bricks, knock the kiln down, simples