Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Spring Projects Anyone?, 0 by docgipe

docgipe wrote:
Just being down right nosey. Three years ago I paid only ten cents apiece for 1880 really nice clean brick. Our patio looks 1880. You folks are much closer to urban users. The demand may be greater. What did you have to pay for your second hand brick? We had to pick, hand load and haul them about fifteen miles one way. Those stone weighed about four to five hundred pounds each. They were machine loaded to our trailer and machine delivered to the patio edge. We took it from there.

There are between five and six thousand 1880 - 1885 brick in this patio floor surface. Approximate size overall is 18' X 30'. The slate is local 2 1/2" random blue stone. Five pieces like the one shown cost nearly as much as the brick. We were pleased to end up featuring locally made brick and local natural blue stone slate. The laruel was planted thirty years ago with this in mind. They make the spot private right in the middle of surburban neighbors.

This message was edited Apr 11, 2010 10:29 AM