7 February 2012

Spare bricks how to get rid of them in Canberra?

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I have a pallet of bricks at the front of our house that were not used when we built an extension.

They are all in good condition as they have never been used. Where can i go to get rid of these?

Preferably not the tip as they are new.

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PrinceOfAles said :

Hang on to them. You never know when your 3yr old will roll your kombi van down the driveway and through a wall.

Not funny. This happened to friends, except the child was 6 years old and the van was a flash car. Ouch.

PBO said :

Have you tried the Canberra Brick Society? They have a regular swap meet somewhere in Yarralaumla (exact location escapes me) where they meet up and swap old and new bricks. I myself picked up a lovely 1928 “Reddie” to put in the garden. I am sure that they would gladly take them off your hands, possibly even for a fair price if your have any rare ones. There is another group in the southside but i would steer clear of them as there have been a number of forged bricks coming from that area.

You almost had me until the forged bricks.

I have some old “Canberra Bricks’ but they’re not very good and fall apart and I’m using them as fill.

Genie said :

Got kids ? Bricks make great punishment.

My partner was made to take the pile of bricks from one end of the yard to the other and stack them back up. Once done. He had to return them to their original ‘home’

Beats smackin 🙂

What did your partner do to deserve that? Normally Mrs Hagrid just calls me some lovely little pet names and tells me to cook dinner…

PrinceOfAles8:53 pm 07 Feb 12

Hang on to them. You never know when your 3yr old will roll your kombi van down the driveway and through a wall.

paint them yellow, make a road, and follow it..? say hi to the wizard for us (perhaps it’ll lead to door 4 at the wetlands…)

Have you tried the Canberra Brick Society? They have a regular swap meet somewhere in Yarralaumla (exact location escapes me) where they meet up and swap old and new bricks. I myself picked up a lovely 1928 “Reddie” to put in the garden. I am sure that they would gladly take them off your hands, possibly even for a fair price if your have any rare ones. There is another group in the southside but i would steer clear of them as there have been a number of forged bricks coming from that area.

colourful sydney racing identity11:54 am 07 Feb 12

through the window of the god awful bogans who live across the road from me.

Holden Caulfield said :

I managed to sell a pallet of bricks a few years back in the free CT classies (free as long as the sale price is $100 or less). Not sure if they still run that, otherwise, as noted try allclassifieds.

Yep, free CT classifieds worked fantastically for us. Managed to off load a heap of old red bricks in no time.

Got kids ? Bricks make great punishment.

My partner was made to take the pile of bricks from one end of the yard to the other and stack them back up. Once done. He had to return them to their original ‘home’

Beats smackin 🙂

Holden Caulfield11:20 am 07 Feb 12

I managed to sell a pallet of bricks a few years back in the free CT classies (free as long as the sale price is $100 or less). Not sure if they still run that, otherwise, as noted try allclassifieds.

Personally I would build a small block and cement a sword, blade down, into the top of it, and then put it into the lake so that the hilt and just a bit of the blade were showing, and watch people try to pull it out. You could get a cheap sword in allclassifieds. Probably.

Thanks for the idea of public art, Skyring. But this one will only offend closet royalists, which has to be A Good Thing.

Freecycle ?

Chock up some white commodores?

Put a for sale sign in front of them and they’ll be mysteriously gone by the end of the day.

I think Skyring wins. Some very good Uses for Bricks there. I would’ve suggested AllClassifieds too, great for selling and giving stuff away.

Build a brick letterbox?

We will take them if you are willing to give them away. Email is contact(at)queanbeyanarchery.com.au

Do they match the house? I’d keep them if possible. When we did our extension we found you couldn’t get matching bricks any more, and I really wished we’d had a pallet of them down the end of the yard.

Have you considered putting them into a backpack, one or two at a time, taking them up the hill and dropping them onto the cross benches during Question Time?

Or possibly, with a bit of cement, make your own public artworks. Honestly, Civic is so full of the stuff that nobody would notice. Get Mr Minit to whip up a small engraved plaque and your brick rendition of a dingo sniffing its arse could represent Aboriginal Harmony and the pollies would line up to make fancy speeches.

Use a sledgehammer to break them up into small but handy pieces and mount a public stoning for your enemies whom you have unwittingly invited to a free beer and prawn night.

Pete, helpfully

Build a barbie.

Hmmm… I’ve been looking for some new bricks for a little job in the garden.

Why not try allclassifieds. It’ll be gone by the weekend if you offer it up for free (or at charge some $$$) – beats paying tip fees?

Why don’t you try allclassifieds? You could probably get some $$$ for it… even giving it away for free < tip fees!

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