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Posted by Al Bundy on August 18, 2007, 11:24 am
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:27:40 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
>
>>I took down a couple of pieces of beat-up sheetrock and found that
>>many of the cavities were almost completely full of pieces of
>>sheetrock.
>>
>>Any good reason why a builder (or remodeler, perhaps) would have done
>>this? The only thing I can think of is that it saved them the trouble
>>of carting the offcuts away and perhaps paying to dump them.
>>
>>I suppose they haven't been doing any harm, but they are a pest if I
>>want to install an old-work outlet box in a section of wall where I do
>>not remove the sheetrock.
>>
>>Perce
>
> The builder of my house threw a lot of unused building material in the
> front yard, then covered it up. Ten years later I have a sinking
> front lawn and broken concrete driveway.
Digging a hole and tossing material in it is/was common. They would burn
it though. Common term - burnhole. Failure to burn it results in what
you got :-(
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