Sup PrepHole
Due to extreme stupidity that I won't go into, I ended up with a shitload of pavers like this (the kind with the spacer extrusions on the side for leaving uniform sand gaps in walkways.)
What I don't have is the willpower to dig up my yard, tamp stone, skreet sand, and level everything just to make sidewalks and paver patios I don't need in an effort to get use out of these.
What I may have energy for is building something vertical like a fireplace or pizza oven outside. If I stack the pavers normally they'll look like ass with those spacer bars showing outward, but I figure if I flip them up so the top face is showing outward they'll look nice...but due to those spacers they stack terribly flipped up like that, at least with no mortar.
If I make a frame to stack them against would normal mortar just solve this? Am I going to run into weird problems using basic cement mortar with these damn spacers being flipped for a vertical build? Should I just wreck my life sanding all the spacers all off of thousands of bricks first or something? What would you do with thousands of these fricking things?
Right now they are eating my garage space and I'm angry at them.
Your idea is bad but the spacers on the pavers aren't going to affect anything if you build it with mortar. You're better off getting some actual rocks though instead of those cheap concrete pavers
How about use the pavers for most of the pizza oven, and get some nice stuff for the outer shell of it.
Prob the best bet so far right
Not a bad idea, thanks anon
Frick these things! Plus I have like 6 different mismatched types that are cut at incompatible measurements, ensuring shit will never work well together, or would need a lot of stonecutting.
I know there are services that will come and take them away to but I also have that moronic disease where I don't want to junk them because of what they cost and I might be able to use them somehow.
They are very easy to cut. You can use a 4½" angle grinder ($40 at harbor freight) and a turbo rim disc ($5-10).
>I don't want to junk them because of what they cost
can't you just sell them cheap on craigslist or something
I believe I am still alive today due to never interacting with Craigslist
Quintuple confirmation. I used to love and have great experiences trading there. Now I anticipate bad experiences are as likely as good.
You’re not alone. I’ve had 2000 of these goddamn things stacked up in my back yard for 25 years.
They also gave me a single red paver, just as a “frick you”
>pizza oven
Unless they are kiln blocks they will disintegrate.
Yeah, in ancient times the used alumina ceramic foam blocks to line their electric furnaces bread and cook goats.
> inb4, i mean they will all explode
OP here.
The pizza over was just an example, I don't really want that. I'm half just curious to hear peoples ideas of what cool structures to make with these.
Being quite stupid, my brain has only come up with "fireplace I don't need" and "pizza oven I don't want" as options so far.
Donate them to your local Democrat activists.
You leaked out of /misc/'s butthole into /diy. Please wipe yourself up.
Go back to your containment board, troony.
What troony has ever fricked with pavers, Magat?
This place is for diy, not low key huffing pure orange moron farts.
The early well organized blm riots had pallets of bricks delivered to the sides of the road. Seems like Iike it would be really easy to investigate
More dumbass shit that belongs on /misc/
Wow that's heckin problematic. Erasing our proud ftm like that.
I’ve used some as:
Weights for gluing wood together.
Lapping/Truing-up my sharpening stones.
Steps in places I cant get a ladder into.
Ramps for my car to change the oil.
Supports for furnace and grill.
Doorstops.
Put rubber underneath them for grip to push against baseboards while glue dries.
Rot-proof supports for deck.
t. the other guy with thousands of these fricking things.
Don't worry about the spacers. Also don't worry too much about how much heat they can handle, just reinforce the oven parts that takes most heat with special concrete or stones made to handle heat. I've picked up 8 tonnes of this sht, used them for flooring in my carport and atv-shed, they're great for that. Other uses are as support/foundation for my pallet floored wood sheds. I plan to use some for basement window wells, stairs and to cover some filled old tyre support walls. There's really no limit to what you can use these for. I got mine for "free" just needed to pick em up and haul em. It felt kind of lame to move them on my lot since I had to shift where I kept em, but all in all I think these are a great resource for diy projects on the cheap.
t. third guy with a shitton of rock.
build a fireplace outside pizzaoven from it
Layed out sum outside my basement entrance last night, it's a pleasurable job, the boring part is the foundation work. But if you're in a warm climate you don't even have to insulate under. Today it's snowing here, guess winter just came.
That is an epic retaining wall. I’d do something like that but I’m afraid of being caught by the police for stealing rocks. Are you gonna pour concrete around the bricks.
It looks great though. I think you just gave me some motivation. That can be painful.
ty, I won't use concrete, today I "locked" it to the sides with some 0-32mm crushed rock (same as carrying layer (15-20 cm). The 0-32mm goes halfway up+ to the stones when compressed (I used a 2x4 for compression) on top of that i will use gravel 8/11mm flush with the "bricks" because it'll look ok and be relatively stable imo. I will lock it of in front with some edge stone layed on a 2 inch layer of (not so wet) concrete. pic rel in the b4.
I ment 8/16mm (gravel) on top.
A fire pit should be mandatory in any backyard/garden.
I have that, lol.
Stainless steel, worked great till one day we got it way too hot.
Big dent in the side.