"I would love to see your pics Imp. I don't have any of my old home."
Sorry to have taken so long!
The garage being brick veneered. The house proper to left, the two structures connected by a 6-foot high brick wall 40 feet long.
The house 10 years old, Palo Verde & Mesquite trees blocking view! My early shot is tiny, will try to enlarge first.
Wall being built, garage to right. More later, if desired. imp
Edit: Yes, I became a bricklayer, in addition to all that went before. I was 46 in that photo, 1988.
Edit 2. Front of house while wall being completed. Wall was a concrete block structure, veneered in brick. A view of Phoenix South Mt. Preserve visible above roofline. Construction took 3 years. All concrete work, foundation, slab, and brick mortar was mixed by hand loading a Sears electric cement mixer, wheelbarrowing to work site, pouring and finishing, all by hand. About 90,000 lbs. of concrete, mixed from delivered sand, gravel, and Portland Cement. The basic structure was standard 2X4 stud construction, but all outside sheathing plywood. Then red brick veneer. Brick was made in Mexico by Volcano Cement Co., which had a large clay quarry and brick-making facility there. The brick was 5.5 cents per each. 12,500 of them in house, wall, and garage. Very few brick homes in Phoenix area. I am very aware of being most fortunate to have acquired the various skilled-trade abilities over the years previously, mostly while building fast cars, needed to build our house. Finally, an outlet to vent all those pent-up creative ambitions!
Had I considered then, what I know now, I would have built several. Hindsight provides little foresight, for me, now too old and decrepit to duplicate past efforts. Crying in my beer! Sorry! Hope you found the pics legible! imp
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