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Post by ragusxxi on Jun 10, 2017 3:11:03 GMT
Hello everyone!
I wanted to see if anyone knows where to get free (I'm a cheapskate!) sand. Either play sand or the medium sand with more aggregate in it. I don't need a whole lot, just a pound or two. I've checked with a few companies to see if they would send me samples, but I haven't gotten any responses back at all. I really appreciate it!
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Post by sotf on Jun 10, 2017 12:30:29 GMT
Hello everyone! I wanted to see if anyone knows where to get free (I'm a cheapskate!) sand. Either play sand or the medium sand with more aggregate in it. I don't need a whole lot, just a pound or two. I've checked with a few companies to see if they would send me samples, but I haven't gotten any responses back at all. I really appreciate it! You can normally get a seal able container or two for free at a lot of hardware stores if you don't mind grabbing it from spills around their bags of sand that people can buy. If you're near a beach or other things, you can get some for free. However, you want to bake it to clear any problem issues there.
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Post by ragusxxi on Jun 10, 2017 14:39:29 GMT
Hello everyone! I wanted to see if anyone knows where to get free (I'm a cheapskate!) sand. Either play sand or the medium sand with more aggregate in it. I don't need a whole lot, just a pound or two. I've checked with a few companies to see if they would send me samples, but I haven't gotten any responses back at all. I really appreciate it! You can normally get a seal able container or two for free at a lot of hardware stores if you don't mind grabbing it from spills around their bags of sand that people can buy. If you're near a beach or other things, you can get some for free. However, you want to bake it to clear any problem issues there. I'll check around at the local store. Sadly, I live in a smaller town, and I'm around 8 hours away from a beach. I really appreciate the info!
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Post by kgstanley81 on Jun 10, 2017 23:05:59 GMT
Not sure if you have winters and the Highway Dept. sands the roads, but that sand would work too, just you would want to wash the sand and get any salt out
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Post by kgstanley81 on Jun 10, 2017 23:11:23 GMT
Construction sites should have sand as well, just talk to the general contractor first to see if it would be OK to take a coffee container full
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Post by sotf on Jun 11, 2017 1:35:37 GMT
You can normally get a seal able container or two for free at a lot of hardware stores if you don't mind grabbing it from spills around their bags of sand that people can buy. If you're near a beach or other things, you can get some for free. However, you want to bake it to clear any problem issues there. I'll check around at the local store. Sadly, I live in a smaller town, and I'm around 8 hours away from a beach. I really appreciate the info! Just make sure to ask about the spilled sand that would be around the stack, glance at it first to see if any did spill.
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Post by ragusxxi on Jun 11, 2017 4:44:17 GMT
Thanks all! I really appreciate the info!
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Post by sgtslag on Jun 11, 2017 17:39:37 GMT
I picked up some sandwich baggies full, on vacation trips to Lake Superior (brick red, large grit, sand). I also picked some brown/tan sand up from a local park, around the playground jungle gym. No one really cares if you fill a ziplock baggy full of sand, but I recommend doing it when no one is around, just to avoid questions. Been there, done that. Worked well enough.
I also buy colored sand at the local Dollar Stores, as well as containers of it at hobby stores, and even Wal-Mart. I use colored sand mixtures for my mini's bases: texture, and colors, no painting required! Fast, simple, easy, and inexpensive. Cheers!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jul 1, 2017 19:53:15 GMT
there is sand everywhere you look at, really... no need for it to be that beach sand or thing like that. all you need though is a good sifter with the size you need and then a bit of time to sift thru it and make it beach sand. thats what i did. all free except the time put into sifting.
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Post by tauster on Jul 1, 2017 22:44:20 GMT
...what dndpaladin said. This stuff is everywhere, I mean literally. You just have to look for it. Even if you want fine grain sand, you can get the rough stuff and sift it - then you're left with what you wanted (fine sand), plus the larger grains you can use for different texture. If nothing helps and you really, really, really can't find free sand, the home improvement stores sell play sand. Where I live, it's 2€ for a bag of 25kg. That should do it.
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Post by deafnala on Jul 2, 2017 13:25:35 GMT
Beach sand is of course free except for one small thing; i.e., beach sand & other free types that haven't been treated can contain flea eggs along with living fleas. Even free has its price.
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Post by indigo777 on Jul 2, 2017 14:03:35 GMT
Beach sand is of course free except for one small thing; i.e., beach sand & other free types that haven't been treated can contain flea eggs along with living fleas. Even free has its price. This is the reason I just prefer to buy it for a little under $5 at Home Depot or Lowes. You get a 50 pound bag of the stuff that lasts you a lifetime of crafting and its been baked to kill any bugs, eggs, and microbes. I filled a couple old coolwhip containers with the stuff then used the rest around the yard to fill in holes. I avoided beach sand in the area because it can contain glass and really nasty bacteria. On the US gulf coast where I live there's a strain of flesh eating bacteria that inhabits areas of the water and wet sand when its warm, if it gets into an open cut it can cause you to lose the infected area or even kill you. I don't want to take the chance of accidentally gathering a bunch of killer microbes just to save 5 dollars. Check to make sure your beaches don't have anything like that in the area before taking sand from them. Also if you do get sand from outside I suggest putting in on a cookie sheet and baking it for a bit at 150 degrees Fahrenheit just to kill anything in it.
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Post by cardmonkey7 on Jul 22, 2017 15:58:15 GMT
I don't understand why it's ok/safe to go play at the beach and lay on the beach sunbathing but not use it for home sand pit without treating it. www.floristdiscountcodes.com
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Post by indigo777 on Jul 22, 2017 18:34:49 GMT
I don't understand why it's ok/safe to go play at the beach and lay on the beach sunbathing but not use it for home sand pit without treating it. www.floristdiscountcodes.comIn colder climates your probably fine, its where the water gets above 80 when you have to start worrying. The gulf coast of the USA has a strain of Flesh eating bacteria called Vibrio Vulnificus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio_vulnificus bacteria that lives in salt water in high temperatures. The June-Early September tempearatures are the perfect breeding ground for it, and all the rivers emptying into the gulf provide the lower than ocean salinity the bacteria needs to really thrive. The gulf is a perfect breeding ground for it. If you have a cut and the bacteria gets in it bad things happen since its natural habitat is very similar to the human body with salt to water content and temperature. The bacteria necrotisis flesh as it spreads in the body eventually killing you. The mortality rate of a Vibrio Vilnificus infection is 33% most people don't survive an infection if it spreads deep into the body and most people that do live have infected parts amputated. Every year around the gulf coast of the USA a fisherman nicks himself on a hook during the summer and ends up contacting the virus and loosing his hand/ other body part or dies from the infection getting into his bloodstream and spreading too far. Last month a guy in Texas a guy died from swimming in the gulf a couple days after getting a tattoo, the bacteria got in through the tattoo weakened skin. Laying or walking on the beach and swimming is generally safe so long as you don't have a cut or weakened skin that the bacteria could get into. But any cut should be treated immediately. The problem with grabbing beach sand is that the sand could have recently been wet and the bacteria could be lying dormant in the sand. The chances of you getting the bacteria from the sand is slim but why take the chance when cheap sand is available everywhere. Especially if you are going to be crafting with it and have a higher chance of getting a cut or having weakened skin from crafting. Google VIBRIO VULNIFICUS and you'll see a lot of current ongoing news stories about people from Texas to Florida fighting for their lives from the infection right now.
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