Q:A neighbor has given me a stack of bricks from his backyard. I intend to use them in the median strip between the curb and the sidewalk in front of my house. Many of the bricks have old mortar stuck ...

Q. I have a big pile of old bricks at my house in the Catskills, many stamped Hutton. Are they worth anything? Who would buy them? Would a purchaser come to pick them up? A. Bricks are one of those ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Before finding salvage ...

Our contractor is having a hard time locating bricks to match those on the facade of our Carroll Gardens brick house. Anyone know sources for salvage bricks? Anyone have any sitting around I could ...

Ten years ago, when Gina Ragsdale launched her tear-down firm, Southern Demolition & Environmental, she discovered she hated throwing things away. Soon she was selling so many recycled materials that ...