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[PIF] SA double down building material PIF

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The wife and I have doubled down on SA and decided to extend our home. We're almost complete and need to clear the yard by Saturday.

It's a long shot but I thought there may be some budding builders/renovators/home extenders/hobbyists in the area on carb who can benefit before it goes to waste.

Item: Sand (1.5 m3 plaster sand, 2 m3 building sand, 3 m3 river sand)
Age: 4.5 billion years
Warranty: Nope
Condition: Dusty
Location: Douglasdale, JHB
Shipping: Please bring a small (<= 4 ton) truck or bakkie


Item: Bricks (200 - 300 not sure can send a pic)
Age: Newly baked
Warranty: Nope
Condition: Bricked
Location: Douglasdale, JHB
Shipping: Please bring a bakkie

Item: Timber (10 pallets and a bundle of 6m long thin beams. Can send pics)
Age: Freshly cut
Warranty: Nope
Condition: Woody
Location: Douglasdale, JHB
Shipping: Please bring something that can carry 6m long pieces or a saw
 
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Father might have use for them. Will confirm shortly.
 
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OMG! What a PIF!

We have been struggling to turn this place of ours that looks like a plakkers camp into something livable for the past 2 years now.

First is the area where the grass is supposed to be... Nothing grows except thorns and weeds. We have scraped the entire yard three times and planted grass from scratch and got nowhere since all plants die from the lack of shade... but weeds and thorns flourish....

We eventually resorted to covering half the yard with plastic and creating something similar to a zen garden with crusher rocks covering half our back yard. The other half we have now planted another tree last week to try and get some shade going and we are in need of bricks to mark off the "bedding" from the areas we plan on covering with stones also... also to create a raised area next to the wall in which to try and plant some plants. Brick most welcome...

Our house is a portable home standing on what I think of as car jacks 😅. It has a "stoep" that floats in the air, also raised by jacks but (FFS) they placed a concrete slab in the air, placed a single jack in the middle of it and then planted the corner poles directly into the dirt.... That stoep is leaning so far forward it's not even funny. The wife wants to build a wood stoep starting from the ground instead. So wood is most welcome.

I spent most of yesterday speaking to Andy Streydom about fixing up the three shacks we have on the property by removing the rotted panels and filling the walls with sand bags instead. R8k for the bags and then I need 26m3 of sand to go inside it. Sand is welcome.

Everything you offer, I need... much more than you have on offer, but still, it would help... But I think my cousin's truck will eat up more fuel to you and back than what your PIF would cost to just buy locally... So all I can say is "Holy ****, what a great PIF and how I would have LOVED to take you up on it since my wife is crazy about the idea of building with pallets" but alas I cannot take you up on it...

Can't believe how you targeted our needs so precisely and still it wasn't meant to be.... incredible 😶
 
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I need those bricks bud. But at what? 4 to 6 rand a brick. I doubt anyone will be able to repay this PIF.

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Updated OP. Bricks seem a little less but i think they're scattered around the yard.

Brandering gone. Sand is being taken away and is now just a mixed up pile thanks to the rain - probably useless.

Pallets and bricks still there.

I need those bricks bud. But at what? 4 to 6 rand a brick. I doubt anyone will be able to repay this PIF.

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We can check with the mods but the rule is probably there to stop people from getting a nice GPU PIF and posting a broken PS3 PIF in return.
 
OMG! What a PIF!

We have been struggling to turn this place of ours that looks like a plakkers camp into something livable for the past 2 years now.

First is the area where the grass is supposed to be... Nothing grows except thorns and weeds. We have scraped the entire yard three times and planted grass from scratch and got nowhere since all plants die from the lack of shade... but weeds and thorns flourish....

We eventually resorted to covering half the yard with plastic and creating something similar to a zen garden with crusher rocks covering half our back yard. The other half we have now planted another tree last week to try and get some shade going and we are in need of bricks to mark off the "bedding" from the areas we plan on covering with stones also... also to create a raised area next to the wall in which to try and plant some plants. Brick most welcome...

Our house is a portable home standing on what I think of as car jacks [emoji28]. It has a "stoep" that floats in the air, also raised by jacks but (FFS) they placed a concrete slab in the air, placed a single jack in the middle of it and then planted the corner poles directly into the dirt.... That stoep is leaning so far forward it's not even funny. The wife wants to build a wood stoep starting from the ground instead. So wood is most welcome.

I spent most of yesterday speaking to Andy Streydom about fixing up the three shacks we have on the property by removing the rotted panels and filling the walls with sand bags instead. R8k for the bags and then I need 26m3 of sand to go inside it. Sand is welcome.

Everything you offer, I need... much more than you have on offer, but still, it would help... But I think my cousin's truck will eat up more fuel to you and back than what your PIF would cost to just buy locally... So all I can say is "Holy ****, what a great PIF and how I would have LOVED to take you up on it since my wife is crazy about the idea of building with pallets" but alas I cannot take you up on it...

Can't believe how you targeted our needs so precisely and still it wasn't meant to be.... incredible [emoji55]
There's a nursery in gerhardsville Pretoria where succulents and trees are bloody cheap.

They are a wholesale. Basically looking at R5 a plant or R80 a tree. Where normal nurseries are about R40 a plant

Go in a but a ton of it and see if that helps.

Edelweiss nursery

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