Red Clay Chimney Bricks – Direct Ground Contact?
I’ve got a bunch of 100 year old red clay chimney bricks; surplus from a project; didn’t pay anything for them.
Rather than haul them off to the landfill, I’m thinking about laying them in strips to keep firewood rounds off the ground in my shed. There is a roof overhead, but they’d be in direct contact with the dirt beneath. Will they last long?
Thanks.
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Frost or no frost?
With no frost the thing that will break them down is probably weeds growing into cracks.
With frost they'll maybe make it through one winter.
(But this only applies to the bottom-most layer.)
>>>Frost or no
>>>Frost or no frost?
Canada, man, Canada! (Oops, forgot our profiles don't show this stuff any more.)
We certainly have frost, so perhaps that's the deciding factor.
Weeds aren't an issue; nothing grows in the shed due to lack of light and ground moisture.
A friend of mine made the best woodshed floor ever out of these: (see pic).
...but they are made of concrete.
Frost won't hurt them at all with no moistrue there