Heritage brick with a human hand imprint

Maximize Sustainability: The Importance of Reusing Heritage Bricks

Re-use is sustainable, energy efficient and conserves the environment. It also preserves Australia’s irreplaceable, heritage bricks, often over 100 years old, like these beauties. Sadly today in Australia, when brick buildings are demolished, the bricks are very often taken away and crushed as demolition waste. What a waste! Hundreds of thousands of perfectly good bricks are destroyed […]
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Australia's Best Homes - Modern Queenslander

Discover The Brick Pit: Award-Winning Recycled Brick Designs

Recycled brick from The Brick Pit creates an eye-catching and environmentally functional feature in this multiple award winning modern Queenslander by Thirdson Constructions featured on Australia’s Best Houses. A wall of recycled brick, peppered with graffiti bricks in green and blue, forms the central spine that runs the length of the house. The wall of solid recycled […]
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Recycled Bricks For Soundproofing: An Unexpected Benefit

Recycled Bricks For Soundproofing: An Unexpected Benefit Let’s be honest—when you think of recycled bricks, “soundproofing superhero” probably isn’t the first title that comes to mind. Cue the record scratch. Surprise! Those old used bricks gathering dust in your shed or piled up at the nearest demolition site? They’re secretly acoustic gold. And here at […]
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Recycled Bricks In Permaculture

Recycled Bricks for Permaculture & Sustainable Gardens

Recycled bricks fit permaculture design principles well: they’re a reclaimed material, they have genuine thermal mass, and they’re durable enough to stay in place for decades with minimal maintenance. The structures they suit best herb spirals, thermal mass beds, swale edging, and compost bays are also some of the most common elements in a productive […]
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