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Eco Trip: Paper Bricks And Loft Insulation


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#21 Aar0sc

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 10:26 AM

 Martin, on 23 January 2012 - 09:50 AM, said:

but doesn´t every real man need a chainsaw

I use AN AXE.


Man up :P

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 11:19 AM

Hi guys this is just a bit of fun to try and dry the bricks. The original idea was to put the stove in the shed but i dont want to fill it with brick so this is where the boxed in heater came from. The seller of the out door stove says it will put out enough heat to have the door open on the shed and still be roasting. This heat would be wasted when it could be heayinh the bricks. As for drying bricks by burning bricks is just because i would be heating the shed. Will be easier to show with pictures.

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 11:31 AM

 Aar0sc, on 23 January 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

I use AN AXE.


Man up :P

I own my Grandfathers axe.

But he was pretty smart, and taught me to use a chain saw and a power splitter.

Smarten Up :whistling: :P :D

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:02 PM

 GT6MK3, on 23 January 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

I own my Grandfathers axe.

But he was pretty smart, and taught me to use a chain saw and a power splitter.

Smarten Up :whistling: :P :D

C.

I imagine there'd be quite a lot of death on my part if I ended up with a chain saw, so an axe, an ancient wooden horse and a large 50s saw do it for me :)

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 08:00 PM

 GT6MK3, on 23 January 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

I own my Grandfathers axe.

Would that be like Trigger's broom?


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Posted 23 January 2012 - 09:09 PM

Hey Chris what you are doing looks fine to me and as it's your time and money your spending just crack on and if you have a load of land with trees that are not protected then thin them out. If you have no trees then keep making the bricks. Oh one of the things my mate burns in his log burner is the square blocks of pallets. :thumbsup:

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 08:32 AM

loft insulation is in and we got 400mm of rockwool, really chuffed. Next is to get drawings done for the indoor stove so the council can Ok the change to our listed building.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 06:40 PM

Hi all just a quick update. I've now got the complete process of making these bricks down to 45mins. Here is my latest effort:


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Really getting the nack of this now. Tonight we are going to a friends place to see how long they burn for as we are beginning to amount too many bricks to store. Our stove still isn't here yet as we are waiting for the council to give us the thumbs up. However I'm now going to make the current brick maker much better and stronger as I'm sure I can squeeze more water from the bricks before being left to dry.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 11:21 PM

That's a real cottage industry you have going there mate :thumbsup:

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 11:31 PM

Well the first burning didn't go as well as planned. My mate doesn't have a grill for the wood to sit on. Problem being that there was not enough air passing the bricks to make them fire but they did smoulder right through so heat was given off but only when I built them up did the higher ones burn properly. Need to look into the best ways of burning them.

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 07:55 AM

Perhaps they need to be left a few months somewhere dry to 'season' rather like logs? You must read a lot of newspapers or do people give you their old ones? :)

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 08:31 AM

The wife works for the bank in the PR department. They buy every paper every day, they get a company to pick them up so zoe asked if she could take some. Basically an endless supply.

Its really hard to store them as they absorb water from the air so it needs to be warm were you put them but I think the real problem was the air flow.

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 02:45 PM

evaporating water in a living room is a simple but effective cooling machine. just in case you're asking yourself why its not getting warm in there. can cause mould/fungus too if you ramp up your production. you should get this wet stuff to the outside. or better, just produce there. then cover it by plasitcs, protected from rain.

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 CHRIS211083, on 01 February 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

Hi all just a quick update. I've now got the complete process of making these bricks down to 45mins. Here is my latest effort:


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Really getting the nack of this now. Tonight we are going to a friends place to see how long they burn for as we are beginning to amount too many bricks to store. Our stove still isn't here yet as we are waiting for the council to give us the thumbs up. However I'm now going to make the current brick maker much better and stronger as I'm sure I can squeeze more water from the bricks before being left to dry.

Chris.


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Posted 02 February 2012 - 05:59 PM

It wont dry outside now its too cold.

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Posted 05 February 2012 - 08:13 PM

it's not question of temperature. it depends on relative humidity - and will take time, of course. but it's much cheaper and healthier too.

i don't think it will cause problems with 2-4 bricks a week. but if you start to have regulary 10-20 bricks in your living room, you'll run into bigger trouble after weeks if you do not raise the air exchange rate, by e.g. open the windows more often. and there goes the rest of the heat...

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Posted 06 February 2012 - 08:58 AM

Try to do your laundry on Greenland in the wintertime; its dry already when you open the washing machine B)

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Posted 15 February 2012 - 12:51 AM

Ok so i picked up a brick drying rack!!!!

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Its wasn't designed for this but dam does it do a good job. I might even buy another one just so I can add the shelves to this one.

Still no word on the stove and we are now looking at secondary glazing too in an attempt to raise the efficiency of our home to sell it quicker. Only time will tell.

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