Builder is selling our house scrap metals!

pinkteapot

For those who are curious, he's a scrap metal merchant's price list:

http://www.royaldocksmetals.com/images/prices.pdf

Before the theft brigade kick off, a ton is a LOT of old pipes.

Taadaa

Mr_Ted wrote: »

An owner doesnt need a licence but a trader does!

I dont think anyopne on this subject is asking for flooring to be taken up to get it, but i expect a trader would unnecessarily so they could get at it!

It's not a licence, it's a permit :cool:

And really, the Environment Agency have got better things to do - at the end of the day the guy is taking it as scrap so it is recycled, not lobbing it over the nearest hedge

Mr_Ted

keystone wrote: »

Exactly. Its the cost of a skip to register.

So you're not a trader then?

Cheers

Wrong again, as a domestic owner you are perfectly entitled to take stuff to a scrappy your self!

Trader, NO, but managed plenty, and retention and selling of scrap from properties contracted to them had a clause, not their entitlement to sell as it belonged to the owners!

cyclonebri1

Taadaa wrote: »

It's not a licence, it's a permit :cool:

And really, the Environment Agency have got better things to do - at the end of the day the guy is taking it as scrap so it is recycled, not lobbing it over the nearest hedge

But just occasionally he is taking it from the nearest railway embankment, or from the drainage system of your main road, call it a !!!!in, thats a ferkin permit/licence, lets not get pedantic, it needs controls:mad::mad:

keystone

Mr_Ted wrote: »

Wrong again, as a domestic owner you are perfectly entitled to take stuff to a scrappy your self!

Not wrong nitwit. I was agreeing with you that its only the trader that needs the permit/licence call it what you will and as extra information for those not in the know said how much it was for the trader to register.

Trader, NO,.......

Mmm - thought not.

...........and retention and selling of scrap from properties contracted to them had a clause, not their entitlement to sell as it belonged to the owners!

Did you not read what I wrote? No - thought not. Sheesh!

Cheers

phill99

It's bizarre. The posts on this forum that get the most responses are the ones about the most petty of things.

Canucklehead

phill99 wrote: »

It's bizarre. The posts on this forum that get the most responses are the ones about the most petty of things.

Agreed....a bit feral at the moment.:eek:

southcoastrgi

good job there's no copper (s) reading this

AlwaysSomething

keithgillyon wrote: »

good job there's no copper reading this

He'd get sold for scrap :rotfl:

art_for_arts_sake

keystone wrote: »

Its usually the only way to get it out.

Funny how the [STRIKE]!!!!!![/STRIKE] metals disposal executives can always manage to turn up within 30 microseconds of the stuff being put outside. Actually I find its a good way of getting rid of all the waste. Pile the bags of old tiles, plasterboard, bricks etc out the front so that its clear what you are doing and separately keep the metals out the back. When they say "any metals, pipework guv" the reply is "yes but only if you take that too". One or two may say no but one will come along soon that will do it. Saves the cost of the skip which is inevitably more than the return on the metals from the scrappy. Oh but make surte they have the waste carriers licence. If they flytip it the council can and will come after the owner of the property if they can trace them.

Cheers

I've no idea what a genuine waste carriers' licence looks like even if they had one and neither, I suspect, do many of these [STRIKE]!!!!!![/STRIKE] metal disposal executives. I really couldn't forgive myself if the lot got dumped in a country lane somewhere, sadly it happens round my way a lot, so I wouldn't be inclined to take the chance.