Is it worth saving 100-year-old bricks?

[jeffkan]

I am in the process of furnishing my former cold attic, the property built in 1895 was constructed with the chimney system visible in the pictures. I plan to demolish the channels that extend out from the central (load-bearing) chimney. The question is whether it is worth saving the bricks if they can be removed in whole pieces, or if everything is worthless and should be thrown away at the dump immediately?

 

[Sören8112]

New massive bricks cost about a tenner each.
Used massive bricks, 14 kronor or something like that....
Feel free to give me a ring if you want to get rid of them....

 

[jeffkan]

I will dismantle the chimney as carefully as possible and post pictures of the bricks!

 

[1337]

Save all the small pieces that might be stuck in the mortar. They have a special name that I can't remember, but they are apparently quite "valuable" for those who know how the pieces should be used (together with the bricks they were stuck between).

 

[jeffkan]

Save all the small pieces that may be stuck in the mortar. They have a special name that I can't remember, but they are apparently quite "valuable" for those who know how the pieces should be used (together with the bricks they were stuck between).

thanks! I'll probably wait until after the weekend to take apart the chimney so that I feel I've gathered all the info

 

[saturnus]

At a McDonald's restaurant I visited some years ago in the USA, the walls inside were built with bricks from an old demolished apartment building. The bricks had marks from children who probably had their bed placed near the wall and had scratched or painted on the bricks. Very impactful, and naturally made one wonder about those who had lived in the building once upon a time. So save the bricks; a feature wall with some of those old bricks can remind us of a bygone era.

 

[Bödde]

Now I don't know the amount you're removing, but I laid a sunroom floor with old bricks. It cost 5 kr per brick, which meant a total of 4500 kr to the seller.
And if you can get even more (referring to the above written), it might be a good idea to take advantage of them! There are often bricks available on sites like Blocket...

 

[Sören8112]

The bricklayer who built the new chimney looked incredulous when I told him I had given away a couple of cubic meters of stone. I didn't know there was value in old bricks... Now I know...
And I still have a couple of cubic meters left... Bring out the leather...

 

[AXS]

A shame to remove, I thought it was nice! At least save one.

You can always build on to get a table or something similar. Fun to save for the future.