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how do I remove brick I want to reuse?
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Posted by critter_catcher (My Page) on Mon, Jul 9, 07 at 9:55
| I am going to build an addition on to my brick home. The brick is no longer available. I thought if I could salvage enough brick from the end wall of the house where the addition is going up, I could get enough to brick the foundation of the addition. I need advice on how to remove the brick from the house in a manner which doesn't damage it and any other advice that you feel may be pertinent.
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RE: how do I remove brick I want to reuse?
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My son and I removed about 350 sq ft of brick off the house when I put on the kitchen addition. We used a compressor and a pneumatic hammer on most of it. Just put the hammer on the mortar joints and pulled the trigger. The bricks popped off, intack. When we got close to the edge we used a grinder to make the transition as you need to take out a weave pattern to tie in the new section. One person did the removal, the other cleaned off any mortar left on the brick and stacked them. We saved at least 95% of them.
I did the same to the slate roof.
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