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brick and cladding combination
24
Mar 2025

Brick & Cladding Combos: The Secret Sauce to Killer Exteriors

Hey there, fellow brick enthusiasts! Let’s cut to the chase: if your home’s exterior were a pizza, bricks would be the crust—solid, reliable, and always in style. But what’s a great crust without toppings? That’s where cladding swoops in. At The Brick Pit (yep, we’re your Aussie brick whisperers), we’ve seen firsthand how pairing bricks with the right […]
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old red bricks
16
Mar 2025

Old Red Bricks: Why We’re Still Obsessed (And You Should Be Too)

Ever caught yourself staring at an old red brick wall and thinking, “Man, those things have seen some stuff”? Yeah, us too. Here at The Brick Pit, we’ve spent years geeking out over these timeless building blocks, and let’s just say—old red bricks aren’t just for grandma’s chimney anymore. They’re rugged, they’re charming, and they’ve got more […]
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05
Mar 2025

The Living Building Challenge

The Brick Pit is proud to be the specified recycled brick supplier for Australia’s first “Living” Certified Building – one of only 24 buildings in the world to have achieved this certification at the time. The University of Wollongong’s Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) achieved full marks under the world’s toughest sustainability standard for buildings, the Living Building Challenge (LBC). The certification process has been a long and difficult journey and the result confirms the SBRC as arguably the most sustainable building in Australia.
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04
Mar 2025

The Brick Pit on Better Homes and Gardens

The Brick Pit is proud to have partnered with Better Homes and Gardens for over a decade, supplying recycled bricks for projects on numerous BHG episodes over the more than 10 years. Jason, Dannii and crew spent a few hours filming at The Brick Pit in June 2019 and we subsequently featured in a double […]
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04
Mar 2025

6 Star Green Star rating for SBRC at UOW

The first 6 star green star rated building in Australia to be fully certified under the LBC, arguably the most stringent green rating tool in the world, is the prestigious Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) at Wollongong University. The Brick Pit was specified by Cox Architecture and supplied all recycled brick, internally and externally, for […]
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04
Mar 2025

The re-purposing of historic Paddington Reservoir

Paddington Reservoir Gardens is the re-purposed site of a historic water reservoir which accepted water from the Botany Swamps pumping station for supply to parts of Sydney between 1866 and 1899. The Reservoir was originally constructed in two stages, completed in 1866 and 1878. The water chambers were built below street level with a grassed park above, […]
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