What Can I do With This?

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Any ideas? These are 3’x3’ by about 3 inches. They are packing for AC units.

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There you go! I had no idea what they were, just figured they were packing for the AC units. Our neighbor has a HVAC business. They were out of town, I was feeding their dogs and saw these. I thought they would get thrown away and wanted ideas as to what could be done with them. I was going to ask for them, but you have wisely pointed out that they are not trash, but a part of the units themselves. OK, scratch that idea! LOL LOL



lol you're making plans with his stock. haha :gig :gig :gig :gig

we have a bunch of old ones (cement) at the shop. my boss is going to make a drive way out of them at his cabin.
 

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those aren't packing, that's the pad the outside unit sits on. they cost around $30 each at the supply house. they look brand new. I would list them on market place.....if your installer doesn't want to use them
 

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those aren't packing, that's the pad the outside unit sits on. they cost around $30 each at the supply house. they look brand new. I would list them on market place.....if your installer doesn't want to use them

There you go! I had no idea what they were, just figured they were packing for the AC units. Our neighbor has a HVAC business. They were out of town, I was feeding their dogs and saw these. I thought they would get thrown away and wanted ideas as to what could be done with them. I was going to ask for them, but you have wisely pointed out that they are not trash, but a part of the units themselves. OK, scratch that idea! LOL LOL
 

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thin cement slabs crack so easy if the bed they're put on isn't really compacted right. are they reinforced at all?

we made some decorative edges of slabs 30 inches by 16 or 18 inches, didn't put any rebar in them, they snap very easily. :( i've broken two of them already this year and i was being careful.


these aren't that strong either.....but he drives an atv at the cabin so no biggy.
 

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I always wanted to do something like this for our driveway
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In my past I worked for a city and coordinated with developers who were building new sub-divisions. One of the subdivisions, we made them put those pavers in for an access road to an area that was owned by the City and was not going to be connected to a paved road. The access was for firetrucks to get to the pond for water in case of emergency and for city employees to be able to go in and control the invasive weeds.
The guy who bought the lot was pretty mad when we didn't let him tear them out to put in a second garage. Duh, what part of permanent access easement did you not understand when you bought the property. He called in and complained about them every year because they were hard to mow. He stopped complaining after there was a fire in the area and the pumper truck used the access. The truck took the turn too wide and left a tire track in the lawn where the pavers were not placed. A deep tire track, lol! No tire tracks left where the pavers were, so that was good.
 

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plastic? any recycle number on it anywhere? if your recycle system will take it i'd send it back to be reused there. my experience with putting plastic anyplace around here is that eventually it becomes a mess i'll have to clean up again later.

i was glad to find out today that our new agreement for the township means we can go back to including other plastics and glass back in the bins.
 

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That looks like the floor to a silkie coop to me.

Mom would probably use it to keep her winter stored potatoes off the shed floor.
 
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