I moved into a council house in the mid 1990's
The house was fine but the garden, the previous tenants we were informed had owned a lage alsation and kept it in the back garden 24/7, suffeice to say there was no lawn left to speak of as it had been chewed up by the dogs paws and the constant northwest rain.
SO I decided to dig over the back lawn and start fresh. Digging over to the depth of 4 inches I found the old window frames-those council single glazed ones that as children in the 1990's me and my mates used to attach wires from our boom boxes too in the mistaken belife they improved radio reception. Excpet there were about 3 houses worth all buerid in our garden.
Couple of years later, I had to dig over the front garden. And was expecting to unearth window frames. But instead discoved a toilet cistern.

How much effort is involved in burying windowframes and cisterns as opposed to throwing them on a council pickup and taking them down the muncipal tip?
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:06, 5 replies)

Click for bringing this up
I too have found a manky old toilet buried in a garden and thought: What the fuckinell is this doin' here?

But looking on the bright side, at least you didn't find the remains of stabbed prostitute.
( SpankyHanky, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:12, closed)

close.
I didn't dare dig any deeper.
next door neighbors two sons had a fight one evening, one stabbed the other with a kitchen knife and then the genuis dumped it in our garden.
Classy neighborhood, I miss it at times.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:24, closed)

unfortunately, this is quite normal
my parents' garden yielded a massive haul of bricks, broken floorboards, roofing tiles and mastic guns.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:23, closed)

When my folks moved into their current house
there was a bath buried in the front garden. The house used to belong to an ex Lord Mayor of the city. It was rotten and falling to bits underneath all the wallpaper and that. It was like that film 'The Money Pit'.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:30, closed)

what is it with buried toilets?
I was helping dig a friend's garden many years back, and indeed dug up a toilet.. and several large , very heavy bits of cast iron with wires hanging off it. When we'd dug it all out, we tried to fit all the bits together, and stood back to look at it - and realise it was a grand piano frame. I've racked my brains and i can think of no logical reason why anyone would bury a piano..
(micky2shoes has more shoes than feet, Sat 27 Mar 2010, 21:16, closed)