Anyone know what the going rate is for Yorkshire stone flags? I've come across roughly 50 m2, with most of them being upwards of 8"" thick.

I'm a little reluctant to just start phoning round, because they're obviously going to want to come and view them, at which point they'll know where they are, and I don't want to wake up one morning to see they've all vanished in the night.

Not sure if this is the best place to be selling stuff stolen from Pavements somewhere in Yorkshire

I can assure you they're legit. Removed the names and dates off them myself.



I was just hoping some of the knowledgeable folk on here might have have been able to give me a rough idea of what price they fetch per 1m2? That would at least give me a ball park figure for when I start phoning round.

Why not get someone to phone a few places and ask how much you can buy them for?

Because that will invariably be a lot more than the price he can feasibly get from said people, obviously.

Our local quarry [urlhttp://www.monebrosdiy.co.uk/sr.asp?id=15[/url

At £72 a square yard thats, erm, a lot of money



Knowing Phil Mone (they are customers of ours) and if your flags are up to 8" thick he might even be interested in buying them himself to split ?

Is this your handy work?



Incidently does anyone know the going rate for 3 miles worth of Railway power lines?

Hello Lord Sugar, nice of you to pop in.

Getting an idea of what others retail them for will give him an idea of what he can expect to get if he moves them on. I'd say it's a fair bet whoever is shifting reclaimed York flags is working to a minimum 100% markup

Coddy gets today's gold star for correct terminology.
i.e. York stone.

You don't say. You see, it is just this level of genius insight, that you can't really get anywhere else. Thank you so much.

In fact, I was so inspired by this post that I spoke to Tescos and (you won't believe this) apparently, the price I pay them for a can of beans is MORE than they buy them for.

Is this practice widespread?

I phoned a couple of specialists and reclamation yards earlier this week. Prices were anywhere between £50 - £65 per 1m2. But talking to them a lot of the price is determined by the quality of the face of the stone, and the character it's developed over the years.

What I did find interesting and relevant to my stones. Are the fact that some salvage yards sell stone flags which have been cut through the middle, creating two usable aged faces from one stone. And with most of my flags being 8"" thick or above it's something they may well do with my flags, effectively doubling the square meterage I'll be selling them.

I'm probably going to have to take the plunge and and phone round and get them to come and take a look. I'll just have to be on high alert that they don't all suddenly disappear the next day/s, once people know where they are.

Thnx for that.



I must drive past that quarry at least two or three times a week.

It's because of the thickness and the fact that they may split them, that's making me umm and arr over what the best way to go about it is.

Stick one in your car. Take to the quarry and show him.

Yeah I think I will do. I've so far destroyed two sack wheels, a wheel barrow and very nearly done my back in lifting all these flags up. I might as well finish the job and really do my back in by wrestling one into the car. One of them is broken so that'll be the one I take.

As for the rest, they're all roughly four feet by two and half feet and eight inches thick. So they'll be staying at home. We had an old set of weighing scales that I manged to wrestle one of the flags onto, unfortunately it just read void.

I'm guessing they must be approaching four hundred pounds a piece.

You are unbelievably idiotic.

Codyed asked a stupid question, so i gave him a stupid answer. Clearly you're even more stupid because you didn't get it.

Admirable attempt at recovery there. Can I send someone round to pick you up off your ar[is[/ie?

You had me fooled too.


How daft do I feel?

I wont be going back there then if they are profiteering in the middle of a crisis i will go somewhere where i can get them for cost price.

I'm in the building trade and sell quite a lot of stone. Usually from demolished walls, outhouses or yards. I get between £20-25 per square meter, depending on the individual size and quality. Thicker ones are worth more but I've never come across 8" thick ones! The price will depend upon whether they are delivered or collected. HTH

you'd need bloody big flagpoles for 8" thick stone flags wouldn't you?

Not on the moon, where the Yorkshire flag was in fact raised before the US flag