WHERE can I find some cheap OLD BRICKS for making a very sm.patio/garden??
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You can find out where the contractors in the area dump there gardening stuff, a dry dump. Usually every town or city has a dry dump they dump trees from trimming, old cement and "bricks" sometimes you can find a treasure in old bricks if you can get there first.
That old saying of "bringing home more then you took" to the dump was my motto.
go to a brick yard or a place that makes the bricks and ask them for their old bricks that they are planning to throw away.
or go to a home improvement store, ask if they have any bricks that may have chipped or been slightly damaged that they cant sell.
Try to find an old brick building in or around your town that's being torn down and ask them if you can buy them from them.
Run a wanted add on craigslist .org, it's free!
I would hit somewhere they are tearing down bldgs or something. We live in Seattle and in a town called Capitol Hill, the tore down some really old bldgs. We took our truck down there and they let us take all the brick and stone we wanted to build our yard wall...like a fence only way cooler looking. You can ask your city hall or whatever city official bldg you have where such sites exsist. you'll pay dearly at a home improvement store. It's a search, but you'll find something. We looked for 3 months til we got all we needed.
I know that when I was demolishing an old chimney I was instructed to take my time removing the bricks because they are worth $1 apiece in the local market, new bricks go for about $ .60. You would probably have better luck buying new bricks, unless you can find someone who is tearing out old bricks and doesn't know their market value.
do some ally driving. maybe you will find some behind a old building some place. Or go to a construction site and ask real nice.
craigslist
You might want to check your local state road maintenance
department, they have to take up brick from old roads and bridges, see what they do with them you never know.
Also put an add in the paper looking for old brick..sometimes people will give it to you if you just haul it away for them!
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