Northern hewer, where abouts was this schoolhouse? You said Maxville, but I have no idea where that is... Also, do you have any pictures?

The panel and plaster wall does sound beautiful, wish I could have seen it in its day.

Don, does anybody put the windows and door frames in AFTER the walls are infilled?

About the bricks. They are dry, and have been for quite some time. It only took them maybe 3 or 4 days to dry out. They are remarkably light weight, but not quite as strong as I want. I haven't yet been able to test their insulation values to me, but observation would tell me that it would be fairly good. In the future, I need to break the coal down into a bit finer of an aggregate, I believe this will make the mix stronger, more stable, and easier to work with and pack in a form. And the easier it is to pack into the form, it seems, the easier it is to get it out of the form in the right shape.