Cheaper Alternative to Skips?

Doozergirl

Hi,

We've just started renovating a house and every time we've done this, despite burning everything we can, the bill for skips runs into the thousands.

There's a massive extension going in, so quite a lot of groundwork - I understand that for this we can just get a massive lorry to take away the earth.

Most of the downstairs plaster has come off for the DPC and all of the stone cladding has come off the front. Is there any alternative to skips for this stuff?

Debt_Free_Chick

Doozergirl wrote:

all of the stone cladding has come off the front. Is there any alternative to skips for this stuff?

Bricks, rubble and probably this cladding - you could advertise it as "hardcore", for free collection. Anyone putting in foundations or looking to lay a track/path would otherwise have to pay to have hardcore delivered - so they would more than likely be delighted to have it for nothing. They would need transport, of course, but that's for them to resolve

Be ruthless about what you put in the skip - it's sssoooo tempting just to use it as a large dustbin. Don't put anything in there that should go in the dustbin, compost bin, be given away or recycled. Just been through the same thing myself

benood

Hi - just did a quick ebay search for "hardcore" :rotfl: there are two sellers trying to shift a few tonnes - free to a good home - otherwise how about cold calling local landscape gardeners/builders - you might get lucky.

Doozergirl

Thanks Chick

We're going to need hardcore ourselves of course, and advertising the rest is great idea

I'll see if I can get him to be more ruthless! I'll have to keep going round and checking the contents!

martindow

Freecycle is another possibility.