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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer
No, I think even the council can play the victim in this one 
Yorkshire stone seems to be easy target for these sorts, it's extremely difficult to identify or trace. I heard DNA glue/grease has been introduced to help councils and homeowners trace and recover their stone flags.
Perhaps it's come to the point we should chisel our postcodes into our flags?  |
The whole of Blackburn Rd's flagstones from the viaduct to the town hall were just stolen?
Or perhaps like me, the council discovered the value of these stones sold them off and then they replaced them with the substandard masonry we have today?
I was improving a terraced house I lived in 20 or so years ago, the backyard the kitchen extension and the back room all had flagstones.
Unfortunately damp permeated through into the house, the best way to stop this was to replace the flags with a well sealed concrete floor.
I got in touch with a guy that wanted to buy flag stones, he called around inspected the stones, Offered me a price that would more than pay for the labour and materials to replace the flags with a quality floor and backyard, he insisted that he and his workers dig them up to prevent damage.
If domestic flagstones had such a high value, what did the council get for such a large quantity of paving stones? Then I wonder, how much of that money went back into replacing our pavements?
They surely wouldn't have just ripped out the stone and thrown it on a tip.
