Please help me find a clever use for recycling these bricks.
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What can I use these storage heater bricks for?
I have an amount of storage heater bricks, around 80ish...
I could skip them, but I want to be ingenious and recycle them somehow.
First I thought raised vegetable beds. Or simple garden edging. Easy but boring.
They'd be great in a greenhouse to keep warm through the night maybe, but I don't (currently) have one and my Father recently dismantled and disposed of his - though I might invest in a small cloche or greenhouse this year so will retain a few bricks to use, but what to do with the rest?
I'm thinking some kind of garden oven? Pizza oven type thing? Although I'm not a huge pizza fan, I do like burny things like BBQs and fires. I have a good sized gravelled 'entertaining' area where I've considered having an oven before and I can access logs free or very cheaply. But I have no clue as to cost or ease of a DIY garden oven build?
I keep Chickens and my Dad suggested using the bricks under their coop, but I don't want to cook my birds as I rather like their eggs.
Or maybe something crazy like under an above ground pool to provide heat!!?
Has anyone used them as a BBQ, or similar, or found a use for storage heater bricks in the past? - other than in a storage heater! These ones are five years old, and still in good condition.
Space isn't really an issue, it's what to do with them.
I have an amount of storage heater bricks, around 80ish...
I could skip them, but I want to be ingenious and recycle them somehow.
First I thought raised vegetable beds. Or simple garden edging. Easy but boring.
They'd be great in a greenhouse to keep warm through the night maybe, but I don't (currently) have one and my Father recently dismantled and disposed of his - though I might invest in a small cloche or greenhouse this year so will retain a few bricks to use, but what to do with the rest?
I'm thinking some kind of garden oven? Pizza oven type thing? Although I'm not a huge pizza fan, I do like burny things like BBQs and fires. I have a good sized gravelled 'entertaining' area where I've considered having an oven before and I can access logs free or very cheaply. But I have no clue as to cost or ease of a DIY garden oven build?
I keep Chickens and my Dad suggested using the bricks under their coop, but I don't want to cook my birds as I rather like their eggs.
Or maybe something crazy like under an above ground pool to provide heat!!?
Has anyone used them as a BBQ, or similar, or found a use for storage heater bricks in the past? - other than in a storage heater! These ones are five years old, and still in good condition.
Space isn't really an issue, it's what to do with them.
DABofNOS said:
Mave said:
You sure they haven't got any asbestos contamination? What age was the heater they came out of?
+++++++++++++1 very dangerous stuff. You must be sure they dont contain asbestos.Even if they have asbestos in them you could still buld a bbq out of them, just design it so you don't have to cut any of them! It is the dust with asbestos that is dangerous.
freecar said:
DABofNOS said:
Mave said:
You sure they haven't got any asbestos contamination? What age was the heater they came out of?
+++++++++++++1 very dangerous stuff. You must be sure they dont contain asbestos.Even if they have asbestos in them you could still buld a bbq out of them, just design it so you don't have to cut any of them! It is the dust with asbestos that is dangerous.
http://www.aic.org.uk/Storageheaters.htm This has a list of older storage heaters that contained asbestos insulation fibres. This would be potentially hazardous if you were using them regularly and they were covered in asbestos dust- Also to be very careful to get rid of the old heater safely if you have it with a liscenced asbestos carrier. If you look at your local district council website or ring them up should be able to point you in the right direction of someone to give you advice. If it is all from a newer heater shouldnt be any problem.I think post 1974 ish heaters is ok.
Alice Marsh said:
http://www.aic.org.uk/Storageheaters.htm This has a list of older storage heaters that contained asbestos insulation fibres. This would be potentially hazardous if you were using them regularly and they were covered in asbestos dust- Also to be very careful to get rid of the old heater safely if you have it with a liscenced asbestos carrier. If you look at your local district council website or ring them up should be able to point you in the right direction of someone to give you advice. If it is all from a newer heater shouldnt be any problem.I think post 1974 ish heaters is ok.
Great first post - but about 2 years too late - oh and welcome by the way 
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