Does Your Lawn conceal Free Bricks?!!!

RealGem

Hi, I thought I'd post this because I've just seen a pile of old red bricks going for sale for a small fortune and in two of my old houses when I buried a pet in the lawn and when I dug up the lawn to redesign it, I found lots of bricks in both cases. And a friend of mine found half a ton of bricks under her lawn.

After talking to lots of people it seems this is a very common phenomenon because old residents couldn't be bothered getting rid of them so they just covered them up with earth.

So if you need to build a wall, garage, barbeque or just want to make some cash, why not dig up your lawn to see if there are any bricks hiding away?

ben500

Better still dig up your neighbours.

timmmers

They pile them up and put windows in them round here :rolleyes:

Pass my regards to Bilbo and Frodo for me will you

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Davesnave

ben500 wrote: »

Better still dig up your neighbours.

My neighbours haven't been buried yet!

I don't think I'd get much for them anyway.;)

foxgloves

The previous owners of our house left all sorts of rubbish, but sadly no lovely red bricks under the lawn...............plenty of old lager cans in the compost heap though.

NeverInDebt

Even better if you could find some nice treasure

WestonDave

Won't be any red bricks under our lawn as they aren't used around here except for a small area next to the canal which brought them in for a short period. I found a couple of breeze blocks under a previous (nearby house) but I don't think they are worth wrecking a lawn for!

Princess_Tink_2

I recall doing a small bit of digging in the summer, and ended up pulling out about 10-15 bricks, many of them whole.

Not quite half a ton, but you could probably work a very small barbecue out of them!

Blakey1982

i dug loads up and built a few small walls in the garden - they act as a kind of compost heap

glasgowdan

I have a load under the ground now, touched the edge of them when I dug the veg patches. No idea how much is there but I seriously can't be bothered finding out! It would also mean cost in re turfing afterwards and I'd never get the lawn quite flat enough again so it's not worth it for me.

Digging out the old concrete washing post stumps was interesting though. Did they really have to put 2ft x 2ft of concrete and rubble in them just to hold up a wee washing pole!?

Reprac

Hope you dont mind, im normally a lurker on this site but felt i had to comment on this post.

As a project manager on hundreds of new home developments i ask you not to go digging up the bricks under your lawn, especially any towards the rear of your lawn as these form part of your properties soak away and are not just a load of left over bricks the builders couldnt be bothered to take away.

If you remove these bricks then the water will drain into the soil and cause displacement giving you sunken dips in your lawn to begin with and eventually the sould displacement will affect footings and boundary fences etc.

So although it may seem moneysaving to dig the bricks up in the short term - long term it will cost you considerably more.

Oh - and merry christmas everyone