At the beginning of May 2011, I received 7 palettes of bricks, weighing over 18,000 lbs.
Since I am writing this in retrospect, I’ll just mention now that, much to my dismay, this was not enough!
So, as I was trying to finish the chimney (which had its own challenges, discussed later), I had to make another brick order. Unfortunately I don’t seem to have all the details for that. But this is what I do have:
High Duty Firebrick (3” series) 1400
IFB 2300 (3” series) 760
High Duty Firebrick (21/2”) 40
IFN 2300 (21/2” series) 36
HD #1 Arch Bricks (21/2”) 100
HD #2 Arch Bricks (21/2”) 8
IFB #1 arch bricks (21/2”) 72
Super Duty Tile (18”x12”x21/2”) 4
Super Kastite (55lb bags) 4
Silica Sand (100lb bags) 4
Fireclay (50 lb. bags) 8
The top-up order:
HD straights (3” series) 100?
IFB straights (3” series) 100?
Silica sand (100 lb bag) 1
Fireclay (50 lb. bags) 2?
And then some more (for finishing the top of the chimney):
Regular fireplace firebricks 186
Fireplace mortar (50 lb bags) 3
The “donkey” bringing palettes down the driveway.
