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Maccapacca

Maccapacca

Maccapacca

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Your love of skips is to be detailed here.

My last skip which luckily I was out for when the driver turned up but he did take it albeit leaving two divots in the path I had to fill with tarmac repair.

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Skips I love them, can't resist looking in a skip, even on holiday, I've been known to look in skips.:o
Skips out side a shop refitting can be a gold mine, all my workshop filing cabinets came from a skip, as did loads of timber, pipe, 8'x4' ply.

And building site skips can be even better, some years ago, a local site was finishing, I had a enough sheets of foil backed plasterboard for a 3 bed house.

Last week was a good skipping week boxes of screws, fixings, locks, all unused & dumped.:eek:
 
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Our company wastes so much when fitting out offices/shops/whatever.
But it's cheaper to buy stuff for the job then skip them at the end than it is to rent them?
How crazy is that?!
But also stuff like full on 3c trunking, cabling, server cabs, all sorts.
It's scandalous.
 
Banzai_Joe said:
Our company wastes so much when fitting out offices/shops/whatever.
But it's cheaper to buy stuff for the job then skip them at the end than it is to rent them?
How crazy is that?!
But also stuff like full on 3c trunking, cabling, server cabs, all sorts.
It's scandalous.
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Scandalous is a understatement, more people should look in skips.:eek:
Presently sat in my garden is some 75mm & 100mm cable tray new & unused, in the shed two brand new cc toilets & cisterns still wrapped, rolls of twin & earth, enough knock out boxes & dry lining boxes to do an estate, & in the attic many rolls of loft insulation I got.
 
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All the years of playing Tetris when I got a gameboy as a kid have enabled me to stack skips like a Boss. Managed to get 2 x 2 seaters, a 6x8 shed, full kitchen and some other crap in one of them small skips (£90). It was almost level as well. Wish i had put more in now lol.

It is pretty mad the things people throw away in skips or the tip. There was boxes filled with brand new books at my local tip a while back. Was going to chuck them in the van and claim we had dumped a van full of out of date marshmellows to explain why we weighed the same as we went in :D.
 
We've taken to using Hippo bags on one of the sites we have at the moment, a 1yd bag can be filled and moved by two Lithuanians easily and arguably better packed than a 8yd skip.

Cost wise 1yd bags are 20% dearer than a 8yd skip however if the lorry can pick up a full load of 18 bags then it works out the same, they have 4.5yd bags which if you use two at a time work out the same price as a 8yd skip.
 
We'd usually have 40yd skips and a compactor / roller but the site at the moment is inner London and the only room is just enough to fit a pallet of plasterboard, proper tricky.

We roughly generate 1 20yd skip of waste per apartment.
 
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We'd usually have 40yd skips and a compactor / roller but the site at the moment is inner London and the only room is just enough to fit a pallet of plasterboard, proper tricky.

We roughly generate 1 20yd skip of waste per apartment.
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That's pretty shocking really.......... so about 4 - 8 tonnes?
 
Average probably yes. Max we had was 1 40yd skip per apartment and that was a big project in Woking. That's all not including excavated material away or any demolition material away.

Anything brick and block generates lots of waste, plasterboard BG guidance recommends that you board over doorways and windows with a whole sheet then cut the doorway or window out so you don't get the cracking at the corners (most don't do this) so you get a sheet the size of a door or window that's unusable, one for each side and probably 1/2 a 8yd skip just there, anyone who's fitted a Howdens kitchen will know the amount of packaging that they come with, doors come wrapped in protection material, it's mostly packaging and we allow 5 - 10% waste on most materials for cuts etc and then all our own protection materials because one trade doesn't care about previous work so 9/10 if we haven't covered it in correx or bubble wrap it'll get damaged

We try and use compactors but skip companies don't like it and have started charging based on weight rather than load.

The only waste that never goes in the skip is cable and copper funnily enough.
 
maccapacca said:
Average probably yes. Max we had was 1 40yd skip per apartment and that was a big project in Woking. That's all not including excavated material away or any demolition material away.

Anything brick and block generates lots of waste, plasterboard BG guidance recommends that you board over doorways and windows with a whole sheet then cut the doorway or window out so you don't get the cracking at the corners (most don't do this) so you get a sheet the size of a door or window that's unusable, one for each side and probably 1/2 a 8yd skip just there, anyone who's fitted a Howdens kitchen will know the amount of packaging that they come with, doors come wrapped in protection material, it's mostly packaging and we allow 5 - 10% waste on most materials for cuts etc and then all our own protection materials because one trade doesn't care about previous work so 9/10 if we haven't covered it in correx or bubble wrap it'll get damaged

We try and use compactors but skip companies don't like it and have started charging based on weight rather than load.

The only waste that never goes in the skip is cable and copper funnily enough.
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Do you ever segregate your waste or recycle?
 
On sites we have room yes to timber / plasterboard / metals / hardcore / soils / plastics then the costs for the skips go down, on smaller sites with little room we only separate plasterboard then the rest gets sorted and recycled an the tip. We gain code points and CCS points for segregation and recycling and meets the company CSR requirements.

I went to a large tip in west London where they recycle 95% of what comes in by segregation by hand, massive operation and quite gob smacking.
 
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