They are fire bricks, found this picture on eBay, I thought they were by the weight and consistency but they weren’t like the ones I took out of a night storage heater. these are the exact ones, some flat some with a ridge.
Thanks your all your help.
Someone had fly tipped them down our lane, so we have collected them to edge a border, waste not and all that 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Just a heads up @Lyn … back in the day we used firebricks to make a path … they crumbled very badly in frosty weather. Don’t want you to do a lot of work only to find it turning to dust. 😞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove, not using them for a path, just for an edging for a border to hold some soil back for a while. Just can’t resist picking up someone’s dumped rubbish, (it’s in the genes) especially as it’s just up the lane from us. It would have cost them to take to the tip, they’ve obviously not got a trade waste licence. At least the metal casing hadn’t been dumped.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
They look like fire bricks from inside a night storage heater. When I had a storage heater renewed I asked the electrician to leave me the ones from inside the old heater. They are very useful as stepping stones, a base for a fire pit etc.
They are Joyce, The photo I put on above was from eBay, someone selling them for £2.00 each, I guessed they were fire bricks of some sort by what they were made of, but when I stripped my old storage heaters they weren’t like that, they were the same shape as house bricks but yellowy colour. Anyway, we’ve brought back enough to do an edging around particularly sloping border, it’s just right to level up the soil a bit, we couldn’t get the compost spread near to the edges as it would fall onto the grass.
A good little find all round and tidied up the grass verge 😉
Any snow down your end Joyce?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
2 days ago! I was all set to go for a walk with the dog, looked out and it was snowing. It didn't really settle but kept going for about 3 hours. We have had a few days of wonderful sunshine but boy was the wind cold. It took your breath away. Overcast today but still very chilly.
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these are the exact ones, some flat some with a ridge.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It would have cost them to take to the tip, they’ve obviously not got a trade waste licence. At least the metal casing hadn’t been dumped.
Any snow down your end Joyce?