Old Bricks, New Use Posted on 03/28/09 The center part of the driveway is grass, and mud (mostly mud), and we keep driving over it, making it worse. Walking over it, or unloading the car means dragging mud into the house on your shoes. Not pretty. Behind the house, under the porch, there are stacks of old building bricks which I'm going to use to fill in as much of this as possible. I know it's not the perfect paver, but it's free, so it works. I only had a few hours to work on it, and as you can see I didn't finish by quitting time. I used up the clean bricks that I had, as well as some of the easier to clean ones I could find. Once I find another free day I'll get back under the porch and pull out every single brick I can, and spend a few hours with a hammer and chisel cleaning off the old mortar (which is a strangely satisfying job actually). I know I have enough to pave up to the transition, but I'd love to go another five or six feet so there's brick under your feet when you're unloading the car. If I have enough, I'd also like to pave some kind of apron on the right side of the drive where we're driving over the grass. Oh, the stack of block next to the porch is actually not brick, or even paving block, they're the trapezoidal blocks used for retaining walls. I think I have about a hundred of those as well. Not sure what I'm going to do with them just yet.   Permalink   Share