laurenco Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 We've demolished our bungalow in order to build a new house. As the garden is large and slopes off away from the house, we want to use the broken bricks and smashed concrete to fill it in. As part of this, we want a totally flat area for our kids to play football on. Our demolition contractor says we don't need to crush the bricks before putting them in the garden. Will this work? Or is he just trying to save labour here and fob us off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan52 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Tracking back and forth over them with that big digger will be more than enough to drive them into the ground. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 If they are not crushed very well you will likely have a lot more voids that will need to be filled with soil over time causing the surface to pucker as the soil is washed into the voids over time by the rain etc. So for a bit you will need to keep topping up the surface. Once the voids are filled however it will be very stable you could speed this up by blinding it with a sand layer and washing it in with hose. If their quote included crushing it I think I would insist they did. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 You man up, get a club hammer and spend days breaking them up into manageable pieces! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) You could always fill it up from the over order of the MOT 1 from the driveway ?. Edited August 18, 2018 by Ferdinand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoveringbuilder Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Another thing to try and get rid of, rigid insulation offcuts, we have a room full of them, put them on market place today, first person filled his jeep up twice, very grateful for them, several other enquiries from people who want photos and measurements- they’re getting the damn things for nothing , they’ll be wanting them delivered next! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennentslager Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 I'd say that in the post... Look at the photos you knobs ITS FREE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennentslager Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Btw @mods you missed [.... expletive deleted by a nasty Mod.... ] It's my go to from now on after you binned all my other expletives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Tennentslager said: Btw @mods you missed knobs It's my go to from now on after you binned all my other expletives Can you teach us some Celtic expletives? They always seem to be very good. Bampot, Parcel of Rogues and so on. I am sure I am still to learn some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Joking aside you could probably clean a good few bricks up and sell as reclaimed / salvage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpd Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 I would just run it in with the big digger and if your concerned about soil washing into the voids then lay some ground fabric down, that way it will maintain good drainage but you will not loose your soil. Do the sums on the cost of ground fabric v importing pre crushed road bace to top it off with.... I recon the fabric will be cheaper and quicker. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennentslager Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Ferdinand said: 1 hour ago, Tennentslager said: Btw @mods you missed knobs It's my go to from now on after you binned all my other expletives Can you teach us some Celtic expletives? They always seem to be very good. Hmmm... Tool Spanner Fud Fanny Complete fanny *ank hole Streak of *iss Off the top of my head...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Ferdinand said: Can you teach us some Celtic expletives? They always seem to be very good. Bampot, Parcel of Rogues and so on. I am sure I am still to learn some. I hate to say it, but Gaelic and the Celtic languages are not the best for expletives. German and perhaps one or two of the Scandinavian languages are pretty good, as is Russian, I think. My repertoire of (Irish) Gaelic expletives is about average, but I doubt there are many stronger. English has a better range than either Gaelic or the Celtic languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Afrikaans is pretty good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickie Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 I have NEVERworked with a nationality of people who swear so frequently,and at times you would think unswearable,as the Portuguese. To the point where it’s just punctuating,or pausing a sentence. The Polish ‘Corva’ (100% spelt incorrectly,& probably a Russian word originally) is heard probably at least 10 times/hour but is,I believe,a catch all ‘damn/f**k/‘etc etc. More interesting to me is the Romanian “chi faj “ (again spelt incorrectly) which has multiple meanings;a greeting (“hows it going?-“probably the most literal translation) to an expletive (what the f**k?) and a few things in between,depending on the intonation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) Love the literal translations of Afrikaans: "The man's a box!" Think what else you put something into! "The man's wire a puller!" A euphemism! And my all time favourite, very sexist, lecherous comment muttered at attractive girls by the Boer labourers I used to work with, "Kom gryp my ore!" Edited August 18, 2018 by Onoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weebles Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 We saved about 400 decent whole bricks from our bungalow demolition for a future “project”. Flowerbed edging? Firepit? Offered the rest on a local Freegle site. No takers. People couldn’t be bothered to come and sort them out of the pile of rubble. We wanted to put some rubble back in the hole but we had no space to store the rubble whilst we dug out for the foundations. So it headed away in skips. Did manage to give away about concrete 150 paving slabs though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 When the site of Darent Valley Hospital was cleared a friend of the BiL got to demolish old tram sheds. Was told he could keep anything he fancied. The top layer of the floor was rough old brick and dirt but underneath were acres of vintage but pristine London stocks several layers deep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Watch out for Aldi and possibly Lidl branches being built. I have a T who is self-building a conservatory/porch by mutual consent, and the new Aldi being built near here had 7+ pallets of bricks left over, which the site manager opined he would rather have stolen. Buff facers which are worth around £1500-£2k afaics. Anyway, the T is now building his conservatory dwarf walls from free bricks, having obtained a secondhand conservatory for about £100 previously. The dg door is costing about £30 from eBay locally. (It is a let to buy when they can afford it deal). F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 15 hours ago, Ferdinand said: Can you teach us some Celtic expletives? They always seem to be very good. Bampot, Parcel of Rogues and so on. I am sure I am still to learn some. Bawbag Jobby Scunner Cockwomble to name a few more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 16 hours ago, Christine Walker said: they’re getting the damn things for nothing , they’ll be wanting them delivered next! We offered a stack of left over wood on gumtree. Would have been great for building or using in a log burner. We had a guy who wanted it who said that when he came to collect he would need access to power from the house so that he could saw it up. Told him no and had a big bonfire instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oz07 Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Be fine for underneath a garden. As said filling low spots with a bit of sand or soil as it settles over years but if it means saving £ go for it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oz07 Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Perhaps not in an area you would likely to extend the house over in future 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 1 hour ago, newhome said: Bawbag Jobby Scunner Cockwomble to name a few more. "Prickstain Cockwomble" was the one that tickled me when I heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 I think I am going to have to resort to Shakespeare, then. Though I am not totally convinced these are all in Shakespeare. For self-build sites sites these might fit and not sound too baroque, for example: CUMBERGROUND - someone who is so useless, they just serve to take up space. DORBEL - a petty, nit-picking teacher. For that phonecall to planning. FUSTILARIAN - someone who stubbornly wastes time on worthless things KLAZOMANIAC - Someone who only seems able to speak by shouting. MUCK-SPOUT - A dialect word for someone who not only talks a lot, but who seems to constantly swear. QUISBY - In Victorian English, doing quisby meant shirking from work or lazing around. A quisby was someone who did just that. WHIFFLE-WHAFFLE - An indecisive, time-wasting ditherer. I like Klazomaniac. Ferdinand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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