K P M Chamber Bricks

If you find yourself on Anaikatti Main Road, you will probably see our stacks of bricks near the side of the road. We are located at No. 1/172 A in Tadagam, specifically the Chinna Tadagam area. This whole region is known for brick making because of the red soil, so we have plenty of neighbors doing the same thing. Life at the yard is mostly about the kilns. It is very hot work, especially when we are firing the bricks, and you can feel the heat radiating all the way from the road. The dust is something you just learn to live with. It gets into your clothes and stays there no matter how much you wash them. We are not some big corporate firm, just a local yard where the work is done by hand. Stacking and sorting takes up most of our hours. When the monsoon hits, it’s a scramble to get the unburnt bricks under the plastic sheets before they get ruined by the water. It’s a lot of manual labor and our bones usually ache by the time we head home for the evening. Most of the men working here are from the nearby villages in Tadagam. We start very early to avoid the worst of the afternoon sun on the main road. If you're driving towards Anaikatti, our place is hard to miss. We don’t have any fancy signs, just the bricks piled high. We usually grab a tea at the small stall down the street when we need a break from the smoke.