What car/4x4 to use instead of a skip?
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I'm about to do up a house, which needs a top to bottom refurb, including demolition of a wood lean to. I think i'll need 3 skips, so probably more like 6 
The alternative is to buy a cheap car or 4x4 that i can use like a van, and transport crap to the tip, plus use it to pick up stuff from B&Q etc. The tip is about 2 miles away, so not that far.
I was thinking of buying from e-bay, then reselling (again on e-bay) hopefully for about the same money.
Any idea's, or should I just stick to skips?
The alternative is to buy a cheap car or 4x4 that i can use like a van, and transport crap to the tip, plus use it to pick up stuff from B&Q etc. The tip is about 2 miles away, so not that far.
I was thinking of buying from e-bay, then reselling (again on e-bay) hopefully for about the same money.
Any idea's, or should I just stick to skips?
Opening this thread, i thought what a stupid idea. But on reflection i think it might be cheaper to get the 4x4.
Skips can cost 150-200 a time, and there are always some extra bits you need to get rid of that you dont plan for.
I think and old suzuki vitara LWB. cheap to run and ok space wise.
Skips can cost 150-200 a time, and there are always some extra bits you need to get rid of that you dont plan for.
I think and old suzuki vitara LWB. cheap to run and ok space wise.
I have a Sharan VR6 languishing in my drive that I was thinking of selling.
It'll need an MOT, road rent and a wee bit of work on the coil pack, (It gets damp and misfires. Sealing the cracks with silicon fixes it for a bit), but it's currently being used as 'storage'.
They're perfect 'cos all the seats come out and it turns into a voluminous load carrier.
If you're near Fife we could work something out alternatively, old ones can be had for pennies on eBay.
It'll need an MOT, road rent and a wee bit of work on the coil pack, (It gets damp and misfires. Sealing the cracks with silicon fixes it for a bit), but it's currently being used as 'storage'.
They're perfect 'cos all the seats come out and it turns into a voluminous load carrier.
If you're near Fife we could work something out alternatively, old ones can be had for pennies on eBay.
R12HCO said:
Opening this thread, i thought what a stupid idea. But on reflection i think it might be cheaper to get the 4x4.
Skips can cost 150-200 a time, and there are always some extra bits you need to get rid of that you dont plan for.
I think and old suzuki vitara LWB. cheap to run and ok space wise.
I was going to use skips until i stated to tot up the costs. Also when i take down the lean to i can get a car up close, but a skip can only go on the drive.Skips can cost 150-200 a time, and there are always some extra bits you need to get rid of that you dont plan for.
I think and old suzuki vitara LWB. cheap to run and ok space wise.
98elise said:
PaulB81 said:
Could you not just buy an actual van rather than something like a van? You can get a decent sized van extremely cheaply and it should be easy to sell on too.
They don't let commercial vechicles use the tip. Even if its being used for domestic stuff.Being a bloody-minded old sod, he wrote to the council. Quite a lot.
They gave him a letter to show the tip people that he was officially non-commercial.
Job jobbed.
98elise said:
They don't let commercial vechicles use the tip. Even if its being used for domestic stuff.
True, but I always see vans down at my local tip and the people there never raise an eyelid, yet I get told to not come back having brought down two old coucil pavnig slabs from my back garden. OP: Do bear in mind that tips are also wise to people who do multiple visits.
I totally Refurbed two houses and did something similar. I had a peugeot 405 and just went to tip in that.
Although I have a real fire at home so any timber was cut up and put on the fire.
Some of these waste places are getting very fussy. The same tip I used every day for six months or so , now check what you have brought in.
Good shout on the Volvo . I would keep a big plastic sheet in the back and put all the crap on top
Although I have a real fire at home so any timber was cut up and put on the fire.
Some of these waste places are getting very fussy. The same tip I used every day for six months or so , now check what you have brought in.
Good shout on the Volvo . I would keep a big plastic sheet in the back and put all the crap on top
bakerstreet said:
98elise said:
They don't let commercial vechicles use the tip. Even if its being used for domestic stuff.
True, but I always see vans down at my local tip and the people there never raise an eyelid, yet I get told to not come back having brought down two old coucil pavnig slabs from my back garden. OP: Do bear in mind that tips are also wise to people who do multiple visits.
I did exactly this whilst doing up my house over the last 3 years.
I bought myself a s
tter of an old Espace for £650 off e-bay. Used and abused it for 3 years picking stuff up from the builders merchants all round twon and using it to dump ste at the tip every so often.
Although I still must have used about 40 skips in that time, at least I could dump the occasional load (phnaar) when I didn't have a skip full to get rid of, skips being £150 a pop.
I sold it last year for £450 having spent about £800 over 3 years getting it through the MOTs.
It was a mess, I used to clear the snow off it with a shovel
Usefull old bus though. Having mainly finsihed the big stuff on the house I replaced it with a Range Rover so i can still carry the odd big load, have something for the snow and something I enjoy tooling round town in at the weekends.
I bought myself a s
tter of an old Espace for £650 off e-bay. Used and abused it for 3 years picking stuff up from the builders merchants all round twon and using it to dump ste at the tip every so often.Although I still must have used about 40 skips in that time, at least I could dump the occasional load (phnaar) when I didn't have a skip full to get rid of, skips being £150 a pop.
I sold it last year for £450 having spent about £800 over 3 years getting it through the MOTs.
It was a mess, I used to clear the snow off it with a shovel
Usefull old bus though. Having mainly finsihed the big stuff on the house I replaced it with a Range Rover so i can still carry the odd big load, have something for the snow and something I enjoy tooling round town in at the weekends.
Mitsubishi Delica... Can be bought for less than £1000 for a half decent one, All the rear seats are easily removable or you can fold them out of the way. Far more room than any other 4x4 or estate. I was stopped at our local tip after a few days of visits, they looked inside saw the seats and campervan set-up and said no-problem and let me get on with it.
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