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Hi everyone, I've enjoyed and learned so much the past few weeks reading, and taking notes.
I didn't want to be one of those people who comes in asking the repeated questions when the search function works great, so this is my first real post here.
I already have most my buidling materials being delivered from Lowes this week, almost everything but the firebricks.
I already had it in my mind 1000+ dollars on fire bricks was a deal breaker for the project, so I settles on busing them used off craigslist.
So, yesterday afterwork, I went driving around town, went to the masonry patio builder business in town, and thenjoy decided to go to 1 or 2 wholesale type places, seeing if they had 2nd hand brick, or a bunch of uglies they couldn't sell at full price.
to my shock, he sells fb loose! The warehouse owner said 1.70 a piece!!!!!!! I even had to repeat it to make sure I wasn't hearing what I wanted to hear.
I asked what I believe are the right questions.
2 types of fb. 1 rated to 1500, the next to 2500.
yeeeeep, ours go upto 1500, the 2500 ones are next to the 1500 brick" said the owner.
the size? It was roughly 9x4x3, which is the same size brick that y'all use.
So is this to good to be true? New brick for under 2 each? 200 medium duty fire brick will cost me under400?
I'm about an hour south of Charlotte, I've never known the upstate of SC to be a masonry hotbed of production that would give us access to cheaper materials.
I cannot begin to express my excitement and nerves with this undertaking of a project. Seeing the success stories of people who never laid a brick doing a great job leaves me believing I'll get the hang of it quick, plus youtube videos and all of the years of discussion here have me knowing I have a good support system to get this job done right.
thank you to all of you, and I also blame you all for convincing me to spend more than 1500 on something so crazy to try and build. Thank you all, I can't wait until the times I can pass along the knowledge I've learned here already to others.
I didn't want to be one of those people who comes in asking the repeated questions when the search function works great, so this is my first real post here.
I already have most my buidling materials being delivered from Lowes this week, almost everything but the firebricks.
I already had it in my mind 1000+ dollars on fire bricks was a deal breaker for the project, so I settles on busing them used off craigslist.
So, yesterday afterwork, I went driving around town, went to the masonry patio builder business in town, and thenjoy decided to go to 1 or 2 wholesale type places, seeing if they had 2nd hand brick, or a bunch of uglies they couldn't sell at full price.
to my shock, he sells fb loose! The warehouse owner said 1.70 a piece!!!!!!! I even had to repeat it to make sure I wasn't hearing what I wanted to hear.
I asked what I believe are the right questions.
2 types of fb. 1 rated to 1500, the next to 2500.
yeeeeep, ours go upto 1500, the 2500 ones are next to the 1500 brick" said the owner.
the size? It was roughly 9x4x3, which is the same size brick that y'all use.
So is this to good to be true? New brick for under 2 each? 200 medium duty fire brick will cost me under400?
I'm about an hour south of Charlotte, I've never known the upstate of SC to be a masonry hotbed of production that would give us access to cheaper materials.
I cannot begin to express my excitement and nerves with this undertaking of a project. Seeing the success stories of people who never laid a brick doing a great job leaves me believing I'll get the hang of it quick, plus youtube videos and all of the years of discussion here have me knowing I have a good support system to get this job done right.
thank you to all of you, and I also blame you all for convincing me to spend more than 1500 on something so crazy to try and build. Thank you all, I can't wait until the times I can pass along the knowledge I've learned here already to others.
). Better to have some leftovers than to be short on the build 
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