Chasing into engineering brick

[Toneyz]

They where thinking a few years back to turn steel mill waste/dust into bricks for construction, known as waelz slag, maybe it was something similar from years back.

Termolight blocks are a bi-product

 

[AJshep]

They where thinking a few years back to turn steel mill waste/dust into bricks for construction, known as waelz slag, maybe it was something similar from years back.

Could well have been. It was an old house, probably 1940s hopefully I won't come across them again, as it cost me £100 on diamond blades.

 

[a-z electrics]

You where lucky, when I where a lad it was 40 doubles and all they gave me was a blunt rawl plug tool and a toffee hammer...........

you had a TOFFEE hammer..? Bloody Luxury! we had to cut out our shin bone and head butt it against the wall for 5 nights solid... but you tell youngsters today and they just don't believe you..

 

[Squid]

Could well have been. It was an old house, probably 1940s hopefully I won't come across them again, as it cost me £100 on diamond blades.

I have a wall in the house made of some sort of fibrous board that's been there years, took the death off my pad saw when trying to cut it.

 

[Jjc]

Lol.

Naughty, naughty not politically correct

 

[Toneyz]

Naughty, naughty not politically correct

I think that this is the image he has of SWD.

 

[brianmoooore]

There are many houses around where I live built from a light yellow brick known as a Marland brick, after the clay works where they were made.
These bricks are undoubtedly the world's hardest bricks, destroying SDS bits with ease, and causing diamond cutting discs to cook and warp.
There are black areas inside of them where a diamond disc makes next to no progress, with a black lava like substance oozing from the slot and solidifying on the surface.

 

[Zerax]

...There are black areas inside of them where a diamond disc makes next to no progress, with a black lava like substance oozing from the slot and solidifying on the surface.

Could it be ectoplasm ?

 

[Squid]

Are the faggots for when you get hungry half way through the job?

English people eat rubbish, what are these faggots you talk of?

 

[EalingBadger]

Are the faggots for when you get hungry half way through the job?

What I'd like to know is where can you get a decent ------ these days?

Every butcher I try generally gives a response along the line of "there's no demand around here mate".

Every time I find myself passing through a new town I try to find the local independent butcher to check out there stock.

Does this make me a ------ tourist?

 

[Intoelectrics]

I have a wall in the house made of some sort of fibrous board that's been there years, took the death off my pad saw when trying to cut it.

Need to be careful with stuff like this, could be AIB.

 

[DPG]

There are black areas inside of them where a diamond disc makes next to no progress, with a black lava like substance oozing from the slot and solidifying on the surface.

Sounds like part of a sci-fi novel.

 

[Squid]

Need to be careful with stuff like this, could be AIB.

This stuff was tougher than tough......... may have been some damage to the house during WWII as a V2 had a direct hit on a block in the flats opposite killing 44 people, from what I understand one of the neighbours lost the front bay of their house when the aftershock came though, thus after the war it could have been installed.

 

[Intoelectrics]

This stuff was tougher than tough......... may have been some damage to the house during WWII as a V2 had a direct hit on a block in the flats opposite killing 44 people, from what I understand one of the neighbours lost the front bay of their house when the aftershock came though, thus after the war it could have been installed.

It could well be a cement board, which may contain asbestos. It was commonly used through the 30's - 70's. This is why I mentioned it and why I have mentioned it previously about other things in other threads. There is nothing wrong with leaving asbestos containing materials in place so long as they are undamaged, managed (kept in good condition or encapsulated) and/or left undisturbed. Its when they get damaged, cut, ground or drilled which releases the dangerous fibres into the atmosphere. What people may not realise is that the majority of the dangerous fibres are so small you cannot see them with your naked eye.
I'm not saying the material you encountered is asbestos (no one really can without testing) I'm just saying you can never be too careful and for a small fee you can get it tested just to be on the safe side.