There is a huge market in bricks from abandoned buildings in Detroit. Bang down factory wall / pile bricks on pallet / sell bricks for crack. Why pay someone to demolish derelicts, just unleash the crackheads. ;)
I worked for a council. There was an urban legend (probably not true) about a guy who religiously took home the leftover bricks from every project. 10 bricks here, 10 bricks there... Supposedly he built himself a second house over the course of many years, sold his first one and pocketed several hundred thousand in capital gains.
It takes on average 8000 bricks to build a house. So in theory, if he was pinching 10 bricks every workday, and there are 261 workdays in a year. It would've taken him 3 and a half years. It's doable, but the issue is that many projects took several days to a week to finish and many of the bricks were not the same size and style.
Getting half a pallet of leftover bricks from a big project every other year will really drive up your average. I'm sure someone has indeed built a house with leftover materials from building sites at some point in recent history.
I'm sure material also gets straight up frauded - say an extra half pallet of bricks gets purchased on a project budget and then the "leftovers" are just hauled away by the (dirty) contractor at the end.
I helped a family friend load truckloads of free bricks and he did his whole driveway. Guy was a multimillionaire...
How you think he got there?
You may have just stumbled upon a great truth.
The first time you go to actually buy bricks you’ll completely understand why free bricks are a hot commodity and rarely last long.
Fuckers should be gold-infused with how much they cost, lol.
Wait, you buy the ones without gold?
Bricks of gold-pressed latinum.
You're paying for the shipping
There is a huge market in bricks from abandoned buildings in Detroit. Bang down factory wall / pile bricks on pallet / sell bricks for crack. Why pay someone to demolish derelicts, just unleash the crackheads. ;)
And did your friend get your labor free, too?
This was funny.
If only brickbot could fix this..
He is seated at the right leg of Kek
I worked for a council. There was an urban legend (probably not true) about a guy who religiously took home the leftover bricks from every project. 10 bricks here, 10 bricks there... Supposedly he built himself a second house over the course of many years, sold his first one and pocketed several hundred thousand in capital gains.
It takes on average 8000 bricks to build a house. So in theory, if he was pinching 10 bricks every workday, and there are 261 workdays in a year. It would've taken him 3 and a half years. It's doable, but the issue is that many projects took several days to a week to finish and many of the bricks were not the same size and style.
He build it one brick at a time and it never cost him a dime.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=18cW_yHo3PY
Getting half a pallet of leftover bricks from a big project every other year will really drive up your average. I'm sure someone has indeed built a house with leftover materials from building sites at some point in recent history.
I'm sure material also gets straight up frauded - say an extra half pallet of bricks gets purchased on a project budget and then the "leftovers" are just hauled away by the (dirty) contractor at the end.
Yes.