Cob: Fence and Brick

[bradcalv at netspace.net.au]

Quoting Elizabeth Fox <e.fox at worldnet.att.net>:
> 
> Second, on the garden wall I'm building, I'd like to smash brick into a
> paste for the final coat of plaster - to make it red.  Does anyone have any
> experience with this?  Is brick made of red clay or is it a different
> process that gives it the red color?


Smashing the bricks into powder for a paste sounds like hard work.

An old idea is "harling", throwing small stones into wet render so they stick 
into the wall.  Small pieces of red brick could look good like this.


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