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  • From: <darren@permaculture.biz>
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  • Subject: RE: [permaculture] Urbanite??? and red brick wall
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:21:26 +1100

Hello People,

I trust that this greets you and all well.

I too was waiting for a translation of urbanite.

We have a local facility in our town based at an old stone crushing
works that processes both brick and concrete into a variety of grades -
with and without fines. Our driveways are topped with the 20mm
"urbanite" (and fines). We did it a few years ago now - can't remember
the price. We intend on topping it with the "brickite" - haven't got
around to it. The latter is a very popular product - even for the more
affluent members of our community - it's a great looking product. The
urbanite with fines hardens up well after rain - and doesn't have as
much run off erosion as a normal gravel drive, which is interesting. It
has the appearance of grey gravel - so is quite acceptable
aesthetically.


Cheers,

Yours and Growing,

Darren J. Doherty
Applied Diploma of Permaculture Design, (Education, Site Design, System
Establishment & Implementation) Permaculture Institute (1995)
Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Institute (1993, 1995,
2001)
Whole Farm Planning Certificate (Train the Trainer), University of
Melbourne (1995)
permaculture designer @ permaculture.biz
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-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 3:00 AM
To: permaculture; PhxPermaculture@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [permaculture] Urbanite??? and red brick wall


Sheridan,

Urbanite is broken up concrete. I have been searching fro some for
quite a long time and finally found some small piece. Usually when
they break it up the pieces are huge and unmovable.

I am thinking that I will use stone mason techniques to build the
wall as the Urbanite is roughly the size and shape of rocks.

Greg

>Greg wrote:
>>I have collected a bunch of urbanite and recycled red brick and am
>>hoping in the next two weeks to build a retaining wall out of them.
>>The wall will be 40 feet long and only about 18 inches tall and is
>>to hold back water. Does anyone have any resources about building
>>with urbanite? How to do it. etc?
>
> I don't even know what urbanite /is/. According to both google
>and dictionary.com urbanite simply means 'city dweller'. What is it
>that you have?
>
> I'm interested in building a small garden wall soon (before
>planting season) and am in the process of claiming bricks from
>wastegrounds (of which there are quite a lot around me - lots of
>knocking down of houses, etc). I'll be interested in any answers to
>this.
>
>>Greg
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