Discovering plywood below grade

[grizzlebar]

Working on digging the trench and came across what looks plywood buried below grade at about 15”. The utility company came out and marked everything and nothing should be in this area. I’ve got septic, but that is on the other side of the house.

Any ideas? Gonna call the builder in the morning.

 

[CJseven]

Buried trash pile?

 

[Farmall450]

Coffin?

No idea, lol

 

[larry4406]

Looks like a shingle tab. Some folks think burying shingles in trenches acts as a filter fabric to protect stuff below - rain leader trenches, French drains, etc.

Could also be an unlawful dump.

Good luck getting anyone to fess up.

 

[ransil]

Contractor's getting rid of trash, better than just throwing it around.


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[snyder]

That very well could be an ancient Roman artifact. Your not on an island are you ?

 

[rburke65]

Dig it up and find out. Treasure?!

 

[wssix99]

Looks like a sewer pipe to me! On my street the mains are made of hollowed out logs.

 

[Hot Rod Grampa]

In my area of NY state you are allowed to bury construction debris on your own land if it came from or off your house. But it can be an old septic tank, an old dug well, many possibilities including scrap dump.

 

[grizzlebar]

In my area of NY state you are allowed to bury construction debris on your own land if it came from or off your house. But it can be an old septic tank, an old dug well, many possibilities including scrap dump.

House is brand new on a lot that was farm land. Seeing as how it is still pretty intact I’m guessing it was from construction

 

[ripperd]

When our house was being built, on a windy day, there was trash all over the place. I hope they cleaned it up before they threw the sod down lol.

 

[ForceFed70]

I'm also guessing buried construction waste.

 

[The Cobbler]

there's a story for sure. it could be the farmer getting rid of ****. could have been the builder.

 

[wssix99]

This is better than what we found when building our house. We kept digging up old 1800's huge (quart size) medicine bottles. Hundreds of them. We looked up the inscriptions and found that they were all bottles of laxative.

That lead to a really nasty research project and was an omen of what was to come...

 

[James-W]

Builders find all sorts of things around here when they are digging out a basement. Many years ago there were a lot of Indians around here. Because of that all sorts of things relating to the Indians have been uncovered as basements were dug. Sometimes what you find can be valuable in that it can tell a lot about the area where it was found. Other times what you find is just garbage that someone buried.

 

[PugetDude]

Construction debris. Not uncommon.
Concrete/framers/plumbers/electricians/HVAC/roofers don't pick up their scraps as they generate them so the smaller pieces end up in trenches, crawlspaces, attics, etc. The larger ones usually get tossed in the dumpster when the general contractor shows up and reams them out or has a laborer clean up after them before the owner shows up- but not until a few have been buried, covered with insulation, or sheeted over.

 

[ransil]

Construction debris. Not uncommon.
Concrete/framers/plumbers/electricians/HVAC/roofers don't pick up their scraps as they generate them so the smaller pieces end up in trenches, crawlspaces, attics, etc. The larger ones usually get tossed in the dumpster when the general contractor shows up and reams them out or has a laborer clean up after them before the owner shows up- but not until a few have been buried, covered with insulation, or sheeted over.

I hate when contractor's dont clean up, last 2 at my house left cigarette buts all over, at least on day 1.

I worked for a contractors one of my job was sweep and clean, the other was to fetch tools from the truck i had no idea what i was looking for half the time and to ride with the grumpy drunk brother .

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[nh_yota]

This is better than what we found when building our house. We kept digging up old 1800's huge (quart size) medicine bottles. Hundreds of them. We looked up the inscriptions and found that they were all bottles of laxative.

That lead to a really nasty research project and was an omen of what was to come...

Do tell.

 

[signcrafter]

As mentioned it's just construction debris. Very common to just bury them under some soil and call it good.

 

[Bad Habit]

I'm going with Templar treasure

 

[zak77]

I see contractors burying TONS of waste at new house sites all the time. I was looking at a new house while it was under construction and right in front was a good sized pit about 5' deep, 8x10' with coffee cups, McD's wrappers and bags plus other construction debris from other houses they were building in the area. Hope those people dont dig up their front yard. A builder i worked for way back when would toss all the trash in the foundation hole right before the concrete slab was poured. I've dug up random stuff around my house also.

 

[ard]

I discovered 39 tree stumped buried on my property. 4 to 7 ft across.

Cost me close to $20k to dig out and dispose of- tree stumps can go to the dump, they're 'special'

Contractor for the roads in 1990 buried them in a draw in what was later to become my 10AC parcel. FML

 

[gungatim]

This is better than what we found when building our house. We kept digging up old 1800's huge (quart size) medicine bottles. Hundreds of them. We looked up the inscriptions and found that they were all bottles of laxative.

That lead to a really nasty research project and was an omen of what was to come...

you probably dug up the old outhouse. that's where bottle collectors typically dig to find antique bottles. used to do that with a friend years ago. stick long steel rods in the ground till you hit some glass and start digging.

people threw their bottles in the outhouse back in the day. you can find some pretty neat stuff, sometimes watches and coins as well.

I like the old soda pop bottles, old ketchup bottles, and yes, laxative bottles are pretty plentiful...and lots of weird branded "elixir" bottles. my best find is an 1800's Pabst beer bottle, hand blown, wired cork stopper before crown caps.

 

[wssix99]

Do tell.

you probably dug up the old outhouse. that's where bottle collectors typically dig to find antique bottles. used to do that with a friend years ago. stick long steel rods in the ground till you hit some glass and start digging.

people threw their bottles in the outhouse back in the day. you can find some pretty neat stuff, sometimes watches and coins as well.

I like the old soda pop bottles, old ketchup bottles, and yes, laxative bottles are pretty plentiful...and lots of weird branded "elixir" bottles. my best find is an 1800's Pabst beer bottle, hand blown, wired cork stopper before crown caps.

Indeed. We hit a large wooden cespool full of 100 year old horse poo. It was an outhouse for horses. (The property was once a wagon wheel factory and we think also a waiting stop for horse-drawn trolleys.)

We guessed the trick was to get one's horse to down laxative during the rest and do their business during the break instead of on the streets where the teamster would have to deal with it in a different way.

The thing that was most "crappy" was that the cespool was right next to where one of our structural columns went. (So, we had to call in the engineer to confirm the plan/stability.)

The rest of the lot is littered with 150 years of construction and demolition debris/trash. So, we are constantly dealing with that (whenever we dig anything) but the poo box was worse.

 

[pv74]

Having a new shop built.

I've been picking up nails, screws, fast food cups and construction debris in my yard for the past two months. I don't get it with the nails and screws as they drive their trucks where they drop the nails...tires aren't cheap.

 

[75149]

Having a new shop built.

I've been picking up nails, screws, fast food cups and construction debris in my yard for the past two months. I don't get it with the nails and screws as they drive their trucks where they drop the nails...tires aren't cheap.

That's those "skilled trades" people I keep reading about