Skips

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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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Amusing hour loading that, it was like a giant 3d jigsaw.

 

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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.

 

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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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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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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.