Salvaging Bricks. Brick by brick by brick.....

So I mentioned earlier that we are saving a lot of bricks. We saved most of the chimney bricks and are now saving a lot of the foundation/basement bricks. The foundation of this house is all brick, and the mortar comes off pretty easily. We've been removing, cleaning, and stacking for a couple of days.

 The happy homeowners sit under their house amid a bunch of brick, a couple of I-beams...  

(Yes, it is perfectly safe!)

 Bricks from the foundation, ready to be cleaned off and stacked.

The afternoon's accomplishment. About 350 bricks.