Rubbish

I have a roll on off skip, at a mates farm. 20 yd type.
Up until now, I have had a bit of a deal with a mate of mine, so the skip was costing £250 to change over.
That`s had to stop now, and normal charges apply. The last one was just under 4 tonne, with a change over fee, so cost nearly £700. I think rubbish is about £90 a tonne on it`s own.
I don`t often have to take rubbish, but there are some jobs where it`s part of the job.
A skip is handy, because I just unload the van, and load up as well (I have some containers at the same site), but obviously thats a lot of dollar to get rid of rubbish.

If you do have to take rubbish, what do you do with it ?

 

I take it too a builders skip an gave him a few quid.
CARDboard I take the tip.

 

Used to use skips but to expensive so used man and and van rubbish clearance but alhave inflafed prices to nearly same as a skip so have gone back to skips a nd have a permanent 8 yard skip on the drive and just pay to empty / swap over but I also burn everything I can woods screedbags pallets lvt boxes so I really only put carpet and underlay in the skip which the customers get charged £35 for me do dispose it's then cut up into small pieces and stacked nice and neat and tight in skip its amazing what you can actually fit in a skip

 

Put it in car and take down tip.

 

Yep done that a few times, but when it`s a housefull, its a right pain in the arse

 

Yeah. Better then paying what your paying. I rope my bro into giving me a hand taking it in his car aswell.

 

You can get vouchers from your local council to take aa van into the dump to dump your crap they issue me with 6 vouchers a year, or take it to a commercial tip a pay per weight

 

I did n`t know that. Wonder if the 6 voucher thing varies from county to county.
I used to go to a tip, with a weighbridge, but a skip was so much easier. Sometimes at the end of the day, there not enough time to get rid, and load up for the next day.
Still £90 a tonne there anyway.

 

True most of the time I cant be arsed to drive to tip unload then back to load up thats why I have a skip and I will only have rubbish if customer has paid so I dont lose out and its quicker to just go home

 

I did a Karndean job a while back and the customer had brought it off the net.
The end of the job he said are you taking the waste an empty boxes. I thought he was taking the ****.
I told him its his Karndean an his boxes.

 

I've got a skip and its much easier. Makes me extra money and saves the hassle of driving to trade waste transfer like you say. Its the poles that **** me off especially when the drivers don't take them. And tubs of glue

 

Or get the wife to do it.:-D

 

Done that too lol

 

Give my mate a drink and stick it in his bins at his warehouse, that or if its alot take it to a waste disposal yard £50 a tonne, about 20 minute drive out of my way though.

 

£105 per visit to local skip in aberdeen regardless if its 1 carpet or 10
absolutely ridculous in my eyes
always try and load van right up and make one trip but becoming a more regular thing to uplift and dispose of old floorcoverings

 

If you get a skip how long cam you keep it? I have had them for a few days

 

Thats daylight robbery.

 

Ive had one on site for 3 weeks was a big b****** one though, I think as long as you dont take the p*** that ket you have them as long as you need, although anymore than a month and you might get a phone call id of thought.

 

All companies rou d here say keep for up to 2 weeks unless agreed before I pay £150 for a 8 yarder to be swapped but its a permanent skip agreement

 

Now I stack it up in my unit then when there is enough for a skip I have a skip day. That way I can load the skip methodically and a good load in it.

The cardboard tubes is what ****es me off!!!