Rubble chutes

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Am I missing something or are these all very expensive?

Was hoping to get 3-4m for the work I'm doing but even second hand on ebay they seem pricey.
 
Isn't strong second hand prices a good thing? Means you'll get your money back when you've finished.

I needed a wacker plate. Bought it second hand and sold it a year later for the same price I bought it. Wouldve spent easily £200 on hire charges.

If you need a rubble chute for life then maybe make one using trugs?
 
Yeah I did consider that I'd make most of the money back, but then I never seem to be lucky with ebay and the like so would probably lose out :p.

I also thought of the second hand trug method - I've got a couple of those so a decent head start. Might be worth seeing what I can macgyver up :).
 
Trouble with hiring them is that I need one for, at present, an indeterminate period of time. I'm gutting two rooms and can only work for limited periods at weekends because of our little one.
 
Buy and sell via Gumtree. Haven't looked but I got one from a guy down the street from me, then sold it again for the same I paid 3 months later
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
In all seriousness then how much waste are you actually making, and what size is it?
I used the rubble sacks from screwfix, very tough, semi reusable, some will cut and tear, but plenty will do two trips or more

Are you putting this into a skip or what?
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Outside into a skip. I've been using rubble bags but its plaster, brick and (mouldy) wood debris, some of which inevitably spills out, or I'm just covered in muck so trapse it through the house.

It's purely to avoid making a mess in the house.
 
Ok, Ive seen it done using a drain downpipe, works fine for plaster etc, depends on the size of the bricks, as in are they whole etc, and obviously wood can be any size.

Personally I would be tempted to throw down, but thats assuming you have access to a window directly above the skip.
It will make quite some noise if the skip is empty but if you start with the plaster etc via downpipe or manual transfer (ie stack the bricks for now) then the wood then the bricks by the time your dropping the bricks in sound will be negligable

There isnt really an easy way which is why the rubble shoots exist, but typically for higher buildings :)
 
Chucking it out of the window might be a good solution actually, if I can get it around the porch directly under it. Drainpipe might be the next best shot. No actual bricks will be going down it afaik, mostly copious amounts of dust!
 
Cheap rubble bags from b&m and some hard graft

I've filled numerous skips that way

It will also help minimise dust outside keeping your neighbours happy as they won't need to wash their cars every other day
 
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