Building material waste?
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Question for those in the know...
We've been renovating (for what seems like forever) but are now in a postion to move in at last. However, we have what amounts to probably 2 large skips worth of rubble, timber, etc, all general building waste, which we plan to add a large amount of garden waste to.
The difficulty lies in the fact we live on a village green, with a single road round 2 sides, and no where near the access needed to dump a skip within a feasable distance.
So I figure we have 2 real choices, either we go buy a couple of Hippo bags and get used to the drive to & from the tip (if they even allow building waste now?) or we pay (actual quote) £450 for a licenced waste removal person to come & clear the lot?
Seems a lot of money, but then i'm thinking this is probably 3 days backbreaking work otherwise, and that means 3 days of getting it in the ear from my good lady which I could rather do without!
Unless there are any other options?
We've been renovating (for what seems like forever) but are now in a postion to move in at last. However, we have what amounts to probably 2 large skips worth of rubble, timber, etc, all general building waste, which we plan to add a large amount of garden waste to.
The difficulty lies in the fact we live on a village green, with a single road round 2 sides, and no where near the access needed to dump a skip within a feasable distance.
So I figure we have 2 real choices, either we go buy a couple of Hippo bags and get used to the drive to & from the tip (if they even allow building waste now?) or we pay (actual quote) £450 for a licenced waste removal person to come & clear the lot?
Seems a lot of money, but then i'm thinking this is probably 3 days backbreaking work otherwise, and that means 3 days of getting it in the ear from my good lady which I could rather do without!
Unless there are any other options?
Edited by -C- on Tuesday 5th May 10:45
Should have made it ia bit clearer, won't be using the Hippo bags for them to collect, just a means for keeping everything from the inside of the car to & from the tip.
Skips are expensive! And it's a far from practical solution, as they will be approx 150m from the property, thats even if they allow us to leave them where we think they can.
It's looking like the quote isn't so bad after all.
Skips are expensive! And it's a far from practical solution, as they will be approx 150m from the property, thats even if they allow us to leave them where we think they can.
It's looking like the quote isn't so bad after all.
I expect it is, we have had a couple of quotes now for clearance and disposal, both the licensed operators were the same, and funnily enough, the flyer through the door types who arn't perhaps advertising the fact that they are licensed (or not as is more than likely the case) are less than half the price, and cash of course!
However, I don't really want to see my pile of rubble at the side of the road on the way to work...
However, I don't really want to see my pile of rubble at the side of the road on the way to work...
esselte said:
V12Les said:
Hire a Transit dropside (£40-50) and take to your local tip. Get something in return for your Council Tax.
Wouldn't they try to class it as "trade" waste if you did that?If it comes from my house then it goes to the tip...in my sign written Transit Tipper. I've been to three seperate tips and had no problems, at most they want you to fill out a trade form, of which you refuse because its household. If you ask if its ok to tip they're gonna say no, but dont ask and stand your ground and its not a problem.
The guy at my local tip even gives me a hand unloading
V12Les said:
esselte said:
V12Les said:
Hire a Transit dropside (£40-50) and take to your local tip. Get something in return for your Council Tax.
Wouldn't they try to class it as "trade" waste if you did that?If it comes from my house then it goes to the tip...in my sign written Transit Tipper. I've been to three seperate tips and had no problems, at most they want you to fill out a trade form, of which you refuse because its household. If you ask if its ok to tip they're gonna say no, but dont ask and stand your ground and its not a problem.
The guy at my local tip even gives me a hand unloading
This is part of the problem, sifting through it all to pick out the stuff they won't take also.
Our local tips are really hot on 'commercial' waste too, even an plain van gets grilled. We have tried with signwritten before, and unfortunately it isn't an option.
I have checked with the local skip companies, they can drop about 200m from the house, the big skips are £160 each and we will definately need 2.
The clearance place have been beaten up on the price now, and has agreed to do it for £370. By the time i've paid the extra to the bloody council for being allowed to dump a skip on the road for a week, they are a comparable price, no brainer for me now. He's booked and in tomorrow & Friday to clear it down.
Cheers
Our local tips are really hot on 'commercial' waste too, even an plain van gets grilled. We have tried with signwritten before, and unfortunately it isn't an option.
I have checked with the local skip companies, they can drop about 200m from the house, the big skips are £160 each and we will definately need 2.
The clearance place have been beaten up on the price now, and has agreed to do it for £370. By the time i've paid the extra to the bloody council for being allowed to dump a skip on the road for a week, they are a comparable price, no brainer for me now. He's booked and in tomorrow & Friday to clear it down.
Cheers
xllifts said:
Be careful with waste/unwanted plasterboard as some tips class it as Hazardous waste and won't accept it !
Gypsum waste banned from landfill31 March, 2009
By Thomas Lane
Revised regulations demand isolated waste process to prevent production of toxic gas
New regulations banning gypsum waste from landfill sites will take effect from tomorrow.
Any waste gypsum, which is used to manufacture plaster-based products such as plasterboard, will have to be recycled or deposited in a special cell containing no biodegradable waste within a landfill site.
Previously up to 10% of gypsum was allowed in mixed waste going to landfill sites.
Waste gypsum produces toxic hydrogen sulphide gas when mixed with biodegradable waste. The Environment Agency, which enforces the regulations, said new evidence showed the presence of even very small amounts of biodegradable material mixed with gypsum could result in the production of hydrogen sulphide.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
sleep envy said:
Gypsum waste banned from landfill
31 March, 2009
what I want to know is, they may have stopped you disposing of it at the local dump, what about your dustbin?! I've been dry lining the extension the last few weeks - every sunday I get all the off cuts too small to use, break em up and stick em in my bin!31 March, 2009
Edited by Davi on Wednesday 6th May 11:51
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