Identify type of internal building block.

[Draughtsman]

Early eighties build, inner leaf and inner wall blocks a sort of blue/grey slate colour, not aerated thermalite type (a similar size though). Whilst they're not as hard as modern concrete blocks, they're still quite dense, and they have inclusions, sometimes white, other colours too. What are they?

I've been mistakenly referring to them as concrete blocks.

Please put me straight.

 

[^woody^]

Err concrete blocks. All blocks are made of concrete.

 

[Draughtsman]

So just a different aggregate content then.

 

[stuart45]

Terra-cotta and glass blocks are not concrete.

 

[Draughtsman]

Sry, a photo should have been put up initially.
View attachment 117883

 

[stuart45]

AAC

 

[^woody^]

Terra-cotta and glass blocks are not concrete.

Come to think of it, nor Lego blocks, or blocks of ice-cream, or road blocks, or Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

But I'll be sure to look out for 80's builds made of glass that are not greenhouses, or made of clay that are not ovens.

 

[Draughtsman]

What, a waste material aggregate conc. block?

 

[^woody^]

It's concrete. The grey is sand and cement, then big bits are stones

 

[Draughtsman]

Thanks.

Post concluded.

 

[tomfe]

AAC

Aac are uniform in colour, material and bubbleyness

 

[stuart45]

They are. The face looks like AAC, but inside looks different.

 

[^woody^]

Is bubbleyness a word?

 

[tomfe]

Yeah I just wrote it.

 

[^woody^]

If i use it at the Scrabble Club on Friday and get banned, there will be trouble.