Car to move junk dilemna?

[Mark300zx]

Moving into a new flat that needs refurbing but don't want to use my pride and joy to shift the junk, so the question is do I get a barge to remove it to the local tip or employ junk removal people to collect it, which would probably cost as much as a barge anyway?

[Krikkit]

Cheap people carrier with the seats stripped out? They can be absolutely massive, shouldn't be hard to flog on too.

[Piersman2]

I bought a £600 espace for 3 years when I did my place up a few years back. Used it to dump ste at the tip and pick up stuff from the builders merchant mainly. A couple of hundred a year for MOT and then sold on for £450 when I was done with it.

Pick one that can lay a 8*4ft board flat, IIRC the espace could.

[littleredrooster]

If you do decide to buy a barge, check first with your local tip as to what they allow/charge for.

Ours charges not only for vans, but estate cars too. Saloons/hatches are free (so far).

[TurboHatchback]

Why not just get a skip? This was what I did renovating my new house recently, new stuff is fine in/on the car and junk and nasty stuff goes in the skip to be taken away by someone else.

[Wacky Racer]

Depending where you are some 2 men and a van firms are quite cheap.....around £30ph. In addition, they do all the graft for you.

I certainly wouldn't go to the trouble of buying a new car just for that.

[Mark300zx]

TurboHatchback said:

Why not just get a skip? This was what I did renovating my new house recently, new stuff is fine in/on the car and junk and nasty stuff goes in the skip to be taken away by someone else.

Sorry gated community, not sure it would be the resident's associations cup of tea :S

[Mark300zx]

Wacky Racer said:

Depending where you are some 2 men and a van firms are quite cheap.....around £30ph. In addition, they do all the graft for you.

I certainly wouldn't go to the trouble of buying a new car just for that.

That £30ph isn't disposing of the rubbish as well?

[austinsmirk]

they might prefer a skip for 1 mth than yr shed for 6 mths- if they are all such stuck up knobs.

[Mark300zx]

austinsmirk said:

they might prefer a skip for 1 mth than yr shed for 6 mths- if they are all such stuck up knobs.

LOL tbh don't know them yet, and just looking at some barges atm, some are pretty presentable!!!

[Bumblebee7]

Yup, get a shed- super useful. Even though my main car is no longer valuable it is still well looked after and generally in very good condition so didn't want to damage it. So I now have a 7 seater Sharan that was already in a very poor condition when I got it. Gives you a lot of flexibility for moving materials, waste etc. I don't think there's many that can take sheet materials inside, but generally the bigger it is the more useful it will be.

[NDA]

I recently cleared out a barn that was full of junk. I paid a man with a flat bed £100 to take the lot. This seemed cheaper and easier (he and his son did all the work) than hiring a van.

[bungz]

Currently doing a house up and the Mk4 Mondeo Estate has really come into its own.

Id be tempted by a cheap S max or Galaxy or a similar.

[captain_cynic]

Mark300zx said:

Moving into a new flat that needs refurbing but don't want to use my pride and joy to shift the junk, so the question is do I get a barge to remove it to the local tip or employ junk removal people to collect it, which would probably cost as much as a barge anyway?

Hire a Transit van, £40 p/d + your time

As others have mentioned, check what your local tip charges.

[anonymous-user]

Hello to Jason Isaacs.

[sjg]

littleredrooster said:

If you do decide to buy a barge, check first with your local tip as to what they allow/charge for.

Ours charges not only for vans, but estate cars too. Saloons/hatches are free (so far).

Definitely worth checking - mine won't take any kind of building waste for free, you have to go on weighbridge and pay commercial rates.

Lots of councils either do this or are planning to, budgets are getting squeezed and they don't have an obligation to take it for free.

[andye30m3]

I held fire on replacing my daily driver until after I'd finished removing all the rubbish from my house refurb. Luckily I park close to the local tip to walk into work so it made sense.

Around my way the council are due to start charging for more types of waste disposal at the local tip so it I was to do it again it would likely work out better value to just pay a couple of locals with a van to get rid of it all.

[Flumpo]

Mark300zx said:

TurboHatchback said:

Why not just get a skip? This was what I did renovating my new house recently, new stuff is fine in/on the car and junk and nasty stuff goes in the skip to be taken away by someone else.

Sorry gated community, not sure it would be the resident's associations cup of tea :S

Not sure where you are based, but in the gated communities in Surrey there is always someone with a skip on the go. The wags go through kitchens quicker than range rovers.

Edit: although I think the correct snob etiquette is that the skips have one of those covers on when not being loaded!

Currently got a skip on my drive, if people don’t like it then can skip on.

Edited by Flumpo on Friday 15th February 10:31

[Mark300zx]

Treading delicately as it is my first intro to them and wouldn't be pleased if the skip driver damaged the paving

[Graveworm]

Flumpo said:

Not sure where you are based, but in the gated communities in Surrey there is always someone with a skip on the go. The wags go through kitchens quicker than range rovers.

Edit: although I think the correct snob etiquette is that the skips have one of those covers on when not being loaded!

Currently got a skip on my drive, if people don’t like it then can skip on.

Edited by Flumpo on Friday 15th February 10:31

Where my mum used to live you needed a permit for a skip and for liveried vans