What are these made of?

[breezer]

I am wondering what the "bricks" are made of, from a distance they look like common breeze blocks, but when you get close you can clearly see they are not. Just wondering if any one know what they might be?

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Oh and i posted it in tools and materials, because its the material of the bricks i am wondering about

 

[noseall]

reconstituted stone

 

[^woody^]

It's not clear if those speckles are voids or dark bits in a solid surface

But, why can't they be concrete blocks?

Use a finer ballast, and more cement, and they will be smoother than regular blocks

The way that water is being aborbed seems very "concrete block" like

 

[breezer]

i will post a bigger close up picture later

 

[Salmonfisher]

they look like Conservation Kerb made wet pressed concrette with granite chips then shotblasted to give a textured look they also added coper slag to give a black speckell through the mix
http://www.marshalls.co.uk/select/p...=&product=Conservation+Kerb+255x205&ID=138475

 

[gcol]

Out of interest breezer, why do you mark your images with your name?

 

[breezer]

not all only most.

i had some joker lift some, leading any one viewing to believe they were his

 

[Deluks]

not all only most.

i had some joker lift some, leading any one viewing to believe they were his

Are they worth money or something?

 

[breezer]

both.

Example 1

i sell Z

and you also sell Z

in order for people to see it to buy one you have to have a picture of Z, i go to the trouble of buying one and taking a picture of it, but not just any picture, a picture that is clear and sharp. that says "buy me, I can do this this and this"

But the makers of Z have a picture of it on their site, so anyone selling Z will borrow that picture. So if you search the net for Z you will find the same picture on a few websites, but my picture is often clearer, and shows Z at its full potential, so my picture is better than the makers picture, but you cant be bothered to go to the trouble and effort and cost of buying a Z that i did, setting it up to "show it off, so you borrow my picture.

Example 2

I am a landscape gardener, i landscape a garden, take a picture of it, put it on my website as an example of my work. You then borrow it and say its your work


I found some one had done just this, so now i mark all (most) of the pictures I take.

 

[gcol]

Bet the missus is dead pleased about you doing that to the holiday snaps.

 

[Deluks]

both.

Example 1

i sell Z

and you also sell Z

in order for people to see it to buy one you have to have a picture of Z, i go to the trouble of buying one and taking a picture of it, but not just any picture, a picture that is clear and sharp. that says "buy me, I can do this this and this"

But the makers of Z have a picture of it on their site, so anyone selling Z will borrow that picture. So if you search the net for Z you will find the same picture on a few websites, but my picture is often clearer, and shows Z at its full potential, so my picture is better than the makers picture, but you cant be bothered to go to the trouble and effort and cost of buying a Z that i did, setting it up to "show it off, so you borrow my picture.

ZZzzzZzzZZ - erm sorry, I missed that. I was catching some Z's *yawn*

 

[jefoss]

im not a landscape gardener, may i borrow a pic please?

 

[breezer]

very funny guys (not) but suppose you grafted away at making something, then some one borrows the pictue and sticks it on their website site claiming its theirs, how would you feel?

 

[gcol]

Now breezer, don't bite.

 

[pompeyal]

What weight are they?? if they are light then they could well be thermalite blocks..