Cleaning and reusing bricks that are 100 years old! (HOW TO)

In this video, we take a brick out of a wall carefully so that we can reuse it for a fireplace that we will be building in the future.
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[@wemcal]

Great video.. I’m cleaning and reusing bricks on my wall… picked up about 200 yesterday.. mostly just dirty, a few with mortar

[@DeHoeveOldBelgianFarm]

That looks pretty easy to do - a bit time consuming, but the result worth it! Noted for my future projects :-)

[@BuildingwithBudd]

Excellent, hope it goes well. Thanks for watching!

[@daleminaker1494]

I would like to reuse bricks in this manner but there are so many different sizes of reclaimed brick it's a minefield. I'm West Midlands based so guessing any I find may be Staffordshire of Birmingham origin.

[@BuildingwithBudd]

Thanks for your comment, we find this is where experience is really required. This can be difficult

[@user-cn1em2qx6f]

when making a lime mix. do you just use the regular sharp sand/building sand. or do you use a “washed” sand which everyone keeps telling me i have to use but cant find it anywhere. does it really matter?😂

[@BuildingwithBudd]

To be fair I use a mixture of sharp and soft sand , with the lime but that’s only my throw on it, it just comes down to personal preference, cheers 👍

[@user-cn1em2qx6f]

@@BuildingwithBudd does it matter whether a sand is washed or can i just use the £3 sharp sand from wickes/travis perkins

[@BuildingwithBudd]

I don’t see why not

[@user-cn1em2qx6f]

@@BuildingwithBudd thankss i asked another youtuber too and he said the same!

[@BuildingwithBudd]

Your not cheating on me are you ? 😂👍

[@iSamuelsArt]

Does soaking them help?