Advice re unexpected trade waste

twopenny

Our council charges 60pounds for roadside collection.
Charge for rubble too.
I've boken stuff into small bits and taken it in small infrequent quantities but that's tedious.
Dependent on the type of fire surround a recycle yard may be interested in taking it.

woodsford

Thank you to everyone - some excellent advice on this thread. All of them are noted.

I have sent a scheduled polite email for tomorrow to make it clear that I was not aware of this and whether he or I should be taking the waste away.

I guess lesson learnt for me - always ask before starting work but at the same time not very professional of him. 

We'll get over it. Life is too short   

Another_Level

Seems not very professional with communications.  Maybe the fitter does not have a waste carrier licence     Even if they have the license they could charge an additional hour of labour and the cost at the tip. 

When we supply the materials we take away the waste created including boilers,tanks, packaging etc. If the customer supplied the goods to be fitted, they arrange their own disposal if they don't want to pay us £150 

Rubbish 

seatbeltnoob

Carrot007 said:

Alderbank said:

If you take it to the household refuse site yourself you avoid paying the charge.

No so, such things are chargable and all waste sites I am aware of. If they do it's the counci being generous? Seems unlikely these days.

This differs council by council, I live in an inner city area where people dont have the space to temporarily hold bulk rubbish and clear it all in one go. So flytipping is common.

In fact flytipping is almost expected, "just put it out by the bins, the council will take it". Council takes it because they have to, but things like oil boilers are not recyclable or domestic waste.

Because of that they have free household waste collection (up to twice a year) and have free council tip as well where they take most things apart from car body parts and just engine oil (no brake fluid, antifreeze, etc)

Andy_L

Carrot007 said:

Alderbank said:

If you take it to the household refuse site yourself you avoid paying the charge.

No so, such things are chargable and all waste sites I am aware of. If they do it's the counci being generous? Seems unlikely these days.

My council allows 1 car load of building waste per household per month, 

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/recycling-waste-and-environment/recycling-and-waste/what-can-i-recycle/construction-demolition-and-excavation-waste/construction-demolition-and-excavation-waste.aspx#DynamicJumpMenuManager_1_Anchor_2

davemorton

Andy_L said:

Carrot007 said:

Alderbank said:

If you take it to the household refuse site yourself you avoid paying the charge.

No so, such things are chargable and all waste sites I am aware of. If they do it's the counci being generous? Seems unlikely these days.

My council allows 1 car load of building waste per household per month, 

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/recycling-waste-and-environment/recycling-and-waste/what-can-i-recycle/construction-demolition-and-excavation-waste/construction-demolition-and-excavation-waste.aspx#DynamicJumpMenuManager_1_Anchor_2

Unlimited here, so long as you only take 6 sacks of rubble at a time. 

FaceHead

GDB2222 said:

One dump I want to charges according to this schedule 

https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/rubbish-recycling-and-planning/rubbish-and-recycling/diy-waste

I ended up paying £5 to get rid of some old guttering that I could have sawn up and slipped into the dustbin. 

The first I've heard of DIY waste being charged, even in small amounts. 

Clearly councils are always looking for ways to cut costs, so the practice will spread if they think they can get away with it. 

I think this could be subject to a legal challenge - but that would be by residents, who would end up paying through council tax anyway. Councils have a legal duty to accept 'household waste' with no clear definition of what household waste is. I find it hard for them to justify that some guttering from your house is not household waste. Perhaps people are happy to pay to dispose of their waste instead of paying for the service through some other means. 

Gavin83

Carrot007 said:

Alderbank said:

If you take it to the household refuse site yourself you avoid paying the charge.

No so, such things are chargable and all waste sites I am aware of. If they do it's the counci being generous? Seems unlikely these days.

I took a walls worth of plasterboard to the tip the other day after knocking the wall down and there was no charge. I’m actually getting a skip to get rid of the bulk of the waste but plasterboard is difficult to dispose of in this way so figured it was easier to run it to the tip instead.

bob_a_builder

At the risk of starting a new Yorkshire Man sketch  - "You were (are) lucky "

Here in sunny Berkshire, as a householder at the council tip we have to pay to dump our DIY waste
Rubble, Soil, Plasterboard
£3 per 25 litre bag

Rubble = BRICKS • BREEZE BLOCKS • CONCRETE • CEMENT • GRAVEL • HARDCORE • RUBBLE • PAVING SLABS • STONES • TARMAC • TILES • DRAINAGE PIPES (CERAMIC AND PORCELAIN) • SAND (SHARP OR BUILDERS SAN

A 25l bag doesn't hold a lot of rubble !

Asked a neighbour if I could put some plasterboard in his skip ( 1 piece about 2ft x 3ft) - Ok he says
When skip collected, Skip driver refused to take it - threw it out !
Shame it wasn't at bottom of skip

Gavin83

bob_a_builder said:

At the risk of starting a new Yorkshire Man sketch  - "You were (are) lucky "

Here in sunny Berkshire, as a householder at the council tip we have to pay to dump our DIY waste
Rubble, Soil, Plasterboard
£3 per 25 litre bag

Rubble = BRICKS • BREEZE BLOCKS • CONCRETE • CEMENT • GRAVEL • HARDCORE • RUBBLE • PAVING SLABS • STONES • TARMAC • TILES • DRAINAGE PIPES (CERAMIC AND PORCELAIN) • SAND (SHARP OR BUILDERS SAN

A 25l bag doesn't hold a lot of rubble !

Asked a neighbour if I could put some plasterboard in his skip ( 1 piece about 2ft x 3ft) - Ok he says
When skip collected, Skip driver refused to take it - threw it out !
Shame it wasn't at bottom of skip

If we'd have had to pay £3 per 25 litre bag it would have cost a fortune! I do live in the only city I've ever seen where the town centre has free parking throughout so maybe our council is a little more generous than most.

As said, skip companies are funny about plasterboard in a skip, unless you order a special plasterboard only skip. There is good reason for this though, it's dangerous to mix with other waste (it creates a poisonous, flammable and potentially explosive gas) and for this reason it's also banned from landfill.

Like I imagine all tips across the country you can't dump commercial waste in ours and they're likely to question you if you turn up in a van. Other than that they're pretty accepting.