Does Your Lawn conceal Free Bricks?!!!

invisiblecabbage

Davesnave wrote: »

My neighbours haven't been buried yet!

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

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Davesnave

RealGem wrote: »

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?

RealGem, it was this para that I thought bonkers. It didn't really address the issue of what happens when you dig up your lawn to find no bricks, or lots of broken or non-matching bricks.

Bearing in mind that some people are severely anally retentive about their lawns, spending many hundreds of pounds on them, I think you got off pretty lightly. It was the gardening equivalent of suggesting to dog lovers on the Pet Forum that they could, perhaps, shear their pet and sell the fur.

Many of my posts are light-hearted or mischievous though, so I wouldn't worry. Bearing in mind what most builders do to gardens when constructing houses, digging the whole thing over to a good depth would usually do more good than harm, avoiding soakaways of course.;)

BenEvans

Reprac wrote: »

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

I actually buried loads of bricks under my lawn! Loads were left in the garden by the previous owners...

Does that mean I've got an supa-efficient soakaway?