Its a smashing job and it opens up all sorts of job prospects.......
When I was little ,my dad use to buy secondhand reclaimed London Stock bricks for £ 100 pounds a thousand.....They must be £ 3000/£ 4000 per thousand now if you can get them....maybe more..ill have to ask....:(
Refurbishing old Victorian buildings ,mostly rebuilding to outside walls of the house..sometimes Fifteen thousand bricks are needed......more sometime ,less on others. Tea leafs roam building sites to steal the bricks before they are laid....:(
At one time there was a site builtstlouis.com (now extinct) where they recorded the theft of St. Louis buildings. Used bricks are a popular material, and whole neighborhoods of the city have been carried away.
They are a form of instant cash ....more so since new bricks went metric in England.....the bricks are slightly smaller now and if you patch an old brick wall with new bricks the bed and perp joints are bigger and it looks so out of place.....:(
They've tried to hire people to watch me and keep me from grammar-policing and tilde-gardening. None of the applicants ever made it through an entire workweek before resigning their positions and returning the retainer they had been paid. Most of them quit before the end of the first shift on the first day. One of them is still in therapy years after the experience, and one of them has never been heard from again. ~
Aunt Francine accepted the very first job that came along. As bad as it is, anything is better than having to go back to that office and work alongside Randy D five days a week for nine hours a day.