Our lord Opti, uses bricks to sterilise any workmen interfering with his wenchs,on the estate.
I believe that is frowned upon by the Geneva Convention boffins nowadays
and probably against some obscure EU law too
As Lord Opti is outside MY 25 mile "catchment area" for work , I doubt it will be an issue
If lord opti likes sterilizing things ,I've some socks which are quite pungent ,would save Mrs Builder a task
Probably my least favourite job on this place was cleaning up about 600 bricks so they could be used in our dwarf retaining wall in the garden, along with a couple of hundred blue pavers to top it. To clean up a whole extension’s worth must have taken chuffin ages!
Ours is again similar, although rather than cants, at the back we have shaped terracotta “nosing bricks” (100% not the right term I know).
Cleaning bricks is indeed a PITA, and does mess your hands up ,if like me, you don't like wearing gloves when working
In the case of the freebie bricks, many had lime mortar ,which came off far to easy ,a good number where "rejects" that lined the cellar floors ,and had never seen mortar
much time was spent grading the bricks to decide where they would go because getting colour variation random and rustic to match the rest of the rear ,took careful planning/placement