I was at my precast shop yesterday looking at the panels he is making, and saw these stacks of bricks. He cuts them up and uses them as embeded design elements in the panels (not mine) like maybe a faux brick arch. I was curious about the holes, I had not seen these styles before.
“Put your creed in your deed.” Emerson
“When asked if you can do something, tell’em “Why certainly I can”, then get busy and find a way to do it.” T. Roosevelt
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The ones with the tiny holes are called" closure brick", and the ones with the square and smaller holes are called "meridian thoughwall" I believe, we have a lot of the closure brick around here but I havn't seen the meridian in years' seems to me last time I saw the meridian used was on a commercial job I nosed around on, I do know that there is really no firm set of rules concerning nomaclanture vs. sizes amonst manufactures --roughly but not exact. Its been a long time since I had my attention rivited to a brick nomaclanture chart.
Hillbilly --Hillbilly-- well yeah, sorta I,m recuperating today after I "unazzed" a roof yesterday two bucks of scaffolding and a 6' step ladder kicked out on me I fell about 15', my head looks like a blue and purple water melon, think I broke a rib, mild concusion,too hot to work anyway. durn fake rock --I hate that stuff. I have to replace 10' of guttering and a orange werner step ladder that couldn't stand up to the pressure of my big butt falling on it.My insuranse agent was the first person I ran into on the way home "what the heck happened to you she said' Bee sting I said ,' She said one he!! of a bee". My old man was the next he said one of the nicest things he ever said to me "' Son you would have made a heck of a Marine " Hard head no brains.. all my family were members of the corps.. finally he accepts me. hehaw. Dw too sore to laugh right.
only all that for standing on a step ladder on a roof scaffold...
lucky you...
sounds like those two guys using a baker scaffold on 4/12 with the wheels still attached...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Total stupidity/ laziness on my part .Got started real earlyin the morning to beat the heat, I was installing fake rock on a alcove for a wood stove everything was going fine ,making great time,I had finished the "building" part of the alcove then had layed up three sides of the chimney, Igot to the roof line and continued laying up the three outside sides of the chimney to the top, from the top of the scaffold I had pulled up a step ladder to help me get materials to the peak side of the chimney , when I stepped on the ladder the feet kicked out on some loose sand with me on it, thus causing a stupid series of events that had me laying on the ground , with a motar pan betwen my legs ,me laying onthe remainsof a fairly new stepladder , my head feeling like a squeezed grape, and two sections of scaffolding laying ontop of me, yep great fun had by all. I work by myself also. so no body to help get the scaffolding off me or drive my butt home.and yesI am very luckey.The worst part is trying to breath right and open my mouth wide enough to eat my cheerios.
change to wheaties...
same formula...
just let them set in the milk a bit and ya can use a straw...
or just drink the mush...
glad ya survived..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Well, I ain't read you say it, so, I'll say it for you....
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Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!SamT
see, ya never learned to listen to yer mother when she told you to be careful.
Ah yes, closure brick. The women who collect the glass made smooth from sand and waves on the lakebeach for jewelry making consider worn pieces of that brick a prize.
If they think it's a prize we can sell them a whole strap.
Dedub - I finally found pulaski county on a map. Hillbilly. I'm surprised you have enough electricity to power your pc. :)"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Get yer rock tumbler out. ;o)
I was at my precast shop yesterday looking at the panels he is making
My turn to look stupid, what the hell are you talking about?
Joe H
We're building a branch bank. The lower portion of the exterior is precast concrete panels, with brick above, and eifs cornice and detailing. I'm sure you have seen precast concrete on a building. Done well, it looks like a very fine textured piece of quarried stone, almost a sandstone finish, usually lite colors. It is frequently used for window sills, window headers, and corner blocks. Done wrong it looks like crap.
The panels we are using are about 6" thick and of various sizes, about 5 ft wide x 6 ft high. The gc contracted with a precast shop to build them, and the architect and I went to the shop yesterday to inspect the panels before they were installed.
Two of the attached pics are of some well done panels. The third pic (8-8-07) is one on a different job that was rejected. Actually, I rejected 9 of the 10 panels they shipped to the site, and half the panels at the yard.
In the picture with the window and brick, only the lowest course is precast. The upper portion is eifs. We did this to profide protection from lawnmowers and such, and the branch has landscaping around it. At the current project, the precast goes up about 9 feet because it fronts onto a public sidewalk.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Edited 8/9/2007 12:40 pm ET by FastEddie
Edited 8/9/2007 12:44 pm ET by FastEddie
AHHHHHHHHHH!!
I got it, the precast shop.
Obvious now, not so then.
Joe H
The first pic reminds me of the insulating building blocks they used on my parents house in Germany built in 1978. It looks like the same hole pattern, theirs are made of a clay/concrete mix. Probably 16" long, 8" wide, 8" tall and fairly light wight.
Martin
These were regular fired clay bick."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt