Before and after, my brick door top.

[hutch--]

This is the result I was after with the selected and trimmed set of old handmade bricks. When I get the rest of it up I need to finally clean the brick with hydrochloric acide to remove the rest of the mortar stains.

Before.


After

[vanjast]

You must have been drunk when you did that  :P...

Only joking... not bad  :8)

[oex]

And after :lol

[hfheatherfox07]

Love it!

This Place has nice country curtains to match

http://www.countryporch.com/

http://www.countryporch.com/curtains/

[hutch--]

Van,

> You must have been drunk when you did that

No but I should have been. The old bricks vary in size by a quarter of an inch here and there so the makers probably WERE pissed. These have thumb prints on the top corners, dog and cat foorprints on many of the faces and were made by hand in wooden moulds, pulled out of the moulds when they were about half dry then stacked in a pile and fired with a bonfire built around the pile. The darker ones are overfired but very hard, some cooling fractures and the occasional fused ends. Fortunately they are hard enough not to deteriorate in wet conditions where many other old bricks are underfired and end up very soft when they have been wet for a long time.

They look fine once you have them up and pointed properly but they are bastard hard to lay accurately. This much, the little Gerni (high pressure water cleaner) is truly magic in cleaning these bricks, it saves heaps of time and they come out looking like they have just been fired.

[anunitu]

Good therapy for an old coot like yourself.
Move it or lose it as they say.

Or as Mister Natural used to say "Keep on trucking"