{"id":2965,"date":"2021-03-26T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2022-05-30T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:31:06","slug":"garden-wall-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/garden-wall-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Wall Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2000 bricks arrived for the garden wall last week.  I also saved 1500 of the original bricks.   Now I have a lot of bricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had planned to use new bricks but the lead time is too long at the moment so I went for reclaims.  The bricks came from Loaded with bricks in Birmingham and just about all of them look useable which is surprisingly good for reclaims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new-bricks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2966\" width=\"581\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new-bricks.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new-bricks-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new-bricks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/new-bricks-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The size and colour of the new bricks match the original bricks well.   The originals are Bedford Clamps and are rare these days.  The texture doesn&#8217;t quite match. but once there is mortar in there nobody will notice.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to use the new bricks as headers and the original ones as stretchers (as the photo below) so I can retain the stripe of Bedford Clamps and also hide their spalled side.   I forgot that there are twice as many stretchers as headers so my brick buying maths doesn&#8217;t quite work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/brick-mix.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/brick-mix.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/brick-mix-450x273.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/brick-mix-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/brick-mix-624x379.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next job is organising a hole for the foundations and getting the concrete poured.   After that I should have a nice relaxing job laying bricks for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000 bricks arrived for the garden wall last week. I also saved 1500 of the original bricks. Now I have a lot of bricks. I had planned to use new bricks but the lead time is too long at the moment so I went for reclaims. The bricks came from Loaded with bricks in Birmingham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}