Brick Mailbox: $25.00

Tscarborough

I am going to go take a picture of a mailbox in the neighborhood. It was hideous, and so poorly built that it simply fell over from uglyness. I will be right back.

6stringmason

This is going to be good.

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Tscarborough

OK, here is the one that fell down from ugly and two more that should be torn down. I included mine just to be fair.

Bigbricklayer

It is sad to see some of the brick work in my area. But what is worse is you know those guys are out there doing crappy work for someone else.I know if I did a crappy job like that I would feel bad about turning in a bill.

Bigbricklayer

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but you would have to be blind to find any beauty in those first two.

Dik Redi

Check out the second stone down on left front corner,,, must be pitched for ran run off lmao... ditto on the good stones and mortar being wasted.

Dik Redi

first one looks like it was made too look like poo,,, second pic looks like real poo and they should have atleast plummed the box lol,, third pic is ungodly,,, looks like a dino poo from way back,,,last one is the best looks like someone put alil heart into it ,, but one thing they should have done was the 1" plus over hang on cap.

Chris Johnson

Are you sure that third one fell over from ugliness? It looks like something intentional worth a fortune and on show a the museum of modern art.

You can't tell me some professional built these and actually charged for them, that in itself is a crime, these have to be HO installs, you know pick up a 'bricklaying for dummies, and related HD supplies" to complete the work

Tscarborough

No, they are all HO builds. Dik, I built mine with the overhang first, it didn't look right, so I tore it out and corbeled the 1/2 highs to flush it up. The first night it was laid, the punks next door pulled the top off and stood it upright, that is why it is loose.

edit-And don't forget that my rule of home improvement is that I use scavenged materials if at all possible. Those blocks are all rejects, as was the cap. All my mailbox cost me was the mud, the address plate and some beer.

Dik Redi

[quote=Tscarborough;240534]No, they are all HO builds. Dik, I built mine with the overhang first, it didn't look right, so I tore it out and corbeled the 1/2 highs to flush it up. The first night it was laid, the punks next door pulled the top off and stood it upright, that is why it is loose.

edit-And don't forget that my rule of home improvement is that I use scavenged materials if at all possible. Those blocks are all rejects, as was the cap. All my mailbox cost me was the mud, the address plate and some beer

now that u mention it i see the seperation,, very nice job tho with rejects,, i still think tho a 3/4 " min. overhang would do some justice.noticed the chunk granite veneer ya got ,on house, im doing a 105` dbl sided wall same stlye but tighter joints and alil recessed.

concretemasonry

Bigbricklayer -

Unfortunately, it will last longer than the house in the background.

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Bigbricklayer

I guess stone is forever but so is ugly.

Tscarborough

There is no granite on that house, nor is it mine. Here is mine. The sad thing is that I came home one day and the wife had painted all of the orange rocks white. @#$@#$%! What can you do?

masonking02

everybodys a bricky or are they , the funny part is he will get paid

Subia29

at least its real stone, Looks like the second one loves to eats firecrakers. Stubby lil sucker.

TempestV

It looks like it leans horrably- is it really that bad, or is the camera partially to blame? I wouldn't be supprised if it really was that bad, but how could anyone that was building it not notice?

Dik Redi

the one with 1010 for # doesnt have granite chunk ? its foggy but i doubt its a field or gravel stone .. what type if real or is it a stucco style raked to look like stone??,,,,oh i proof read and i forgot too say nice wrok on home ,,but the right side door jamm has a good 7 to 8 stone run on vert joint( its not str8 up but it cuaght me`eye) still nice tho

Tscarborough

I certainly didn't lay the stone on my home, it was done 20 years ago, by a production mason (to be nice about it). That is good old Texas limestone, not a chunk of granite anywhere on it.

You missed the repointing on the far left corner, at the top, where the previous owner used a very dark mud to fix one rock.

Tscarborough

Oh, did you mean the chunk IN the block on the mailbox? That is why it is a reject, it has a clump of limestone aggregate. Several others do as well, but most are rejects because the split is outside limits.

lukachuki

Yeah I see it now....the pic is from pretty far away and the stonework looks good from a distance at least, although I do see what Diki redi is talking about.

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