How To Choose The Right Brick for Those "Brick Projects"

It all seems so easy. You go to Lowes or Home Depot and they have a plethora of bricks to choose from. They are all relatively inexpensive so you go with the cheapest option because all bricks are the same right?

WRONG!

As it turns out not only are bricks not all the same but you can actually be putting people in danger by choosing the wrong kind of brick for your project.

So what we decided to do was look into the varying types of bricks and look at which ones are great for which projects. Here at DIY we love our brick projects and we want everyone to be as safe as possible.

So let's keep reading and take a look at the tradeoffs between the different kinds of bricks and then you can decide which one is best for you.