how to work with brick?
2020-Apr-28, Tuesday 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I always have a slug problem in my gardens, so I want to encourage frogs and toads to live here. They eat slugs. I know I also have toads, because I accidentally picked one up yesterday, thinking it was just a clod of dirt to push back into a hole I dug. I made an audible yelp when the clod of dirt moved in my hand.
I want to make a toad house (or 2 or 3) to encourage toads to stay around plants that I frequently lose to the voracious slugs. Porcelain ones look nice, but porcelain outdoors will not survive a harsh winter in Minnesota. I need concrete to endure the weather.
Thin bricks look like the material I need, but how do I connect them into a whole structure? I think mortar would work only for stationary objects. These "houses", though, would likely be picked up and relocated occasionally. I need something substantial to hold the bricks together.
Any ideas? This kind of work is not my strong suit.
I want to make a toad house (or 2 or 3) to encourage toads to stay around plants that I frequently lose to the voracious slugs. Porcelain ones look nice, but porcelain outdoors will not survive a harsh winter in Minnesota. I need concrete to endure the weather.
Thin bricks look like the material I need, but how do I connect them into a whole structure? I think mortar would work only for stationary objects. These "houses", though, would likely be picked up and relocated occasionally. I need something substantial to hold the bricks together.
Any ideas? This kind of work is not my strong suit.
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Date: 2020-Apr-28, Tuesday 09:45 pm (UTC)Looks like a bucket or a pot would work.
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