I’m always thinking about better ways to dry out my firewood; and the thought occured to lay bricks on the floor of the shed to keep the wood off the damp ground.
But I’m wondering if all bricks are made equally. Concrete ones should be ok…concrete never stops hardening. But are regular clay bricks (like free ones from chimney demos) OK to be laid on the ground?
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Scott
Old soft solid bricks salvaged from interior walls and to some extent exterior will deteriorate during freeze thaw cycles. That's when they do get damp (wet).
I don't have a woodshed but do provide cover to the stacked wood using sheets of corrugated roofing. To get it off the ground I'll use locust poles (branches), treated 4x4's, whatever. These pcs I'll place on single bricks to keep an air opening. The bricks I use for this are fired and have the holes in them.
The fired brick or pavers would work for you but if you have wet ground there'd still be moisture working it's way up.
The bricks will absorb moisture, and are more susceptable to frost cracking than concrete. Plus the old ones from chimney demos, etc, are often soft and doubly susceptable.
But in general they don't "transmit" moisture as rapidly as concrete and it should be no big deal if they deteriorate a little -- they're not really structural and you don't (or shouldn't) care how they look.
By the way... thanks guys. Looks like at a minimum I'll need fired bricks.
But like Dan, it looks like I'm in for some shoulder surgery right in the middle of my prime-time firewood gathering season. So the shed floor might be left for next year. I can manage with what I have for now (strips of PT lumber).
Off to the surgeon....major bummer.
Yeah, I'm still waiting to see herring (or paddlefish or sturgeon or whoever it is).
>>>Yeah, I'm still waiting to
>>>Yeah, I'm still waiting to see herring (or paddlefish or sturgeon or whoever it is).
Alright...I guess we can trade war wound stories over the next few months.
You pay to play on the wrong side of fifty.....(so says my phyiso guy)....
Mine's a "service-related
You pay to play on the wrong side of fifty.....(so says my phyiso guy)....
Mine's a "service-related injury": I was going out to get the mail left by the Postal Service when I slipped on the ice.
> Looks like at a minimum
> Looks like at a minimum I'll need fired bricks.
Note that virtually all clay bricks you'll find are "fired". Firing is necessary to keep them from turning back to mud when they get wet. I'm not sure what affects whether a brick is "hard" or "soft" -- may have something to do with the temperature reached while firing, I suppose, or simply the type of clay.