Sounds like your building/home would withstand cyclones/tornados. I used to labour for brickies on weekends (had three jobs to repay a debt, cleaning at night and admin during weekdays) and would destroy a pair of short welding leather gloves each weekend.I learnt quickly to get the "mud" mix right. On my first day, as I started on the top floor of a highset and throwing the mix up to the mud boards needed the perfect ratio:too sloppy & I would need to clean the wall below as well as myself & too dry; it would stick to the long handled shovel in midair or go "karplonk onto the previous mix. I was pretty fit keeping 3 brickies going: mixing mud & throwing bricks & cleaning & raking/round jointing etc. Very good LIFE-LESSON.
3 sizes of Concrete blocks are common here but not concrete bricks: these are as rare as my house's mega bricks ( I didn't build this one like the previous two).
I have probs with portrait pics when posting to "gumtree" : I spin them into landscape & somehow they flick back to portrait but on the side.
Do you get the humidity with the higher temps (above 35). We get 90 to 100 % humidity with our higher temps & it is a Bcow.
THANKS FOR POSTING

Rgds
Ranald