On 24/03/2016 13:27, Adrian wrote:
In message , John
Rumm writes
If you think DIY wastes materials, you should see the way some of the
commercial builders operate... I have seen complete pallets of
unopened materials loaded into skips at the end of the job as they
have no way to transport or store the unused materials. Site hordings
made from hundreds of sheets of WBP ply simply burnt on site etc.


Not all of it goes to waste. The previous owner of my house worked for
one of the larger building contractors, and when I moved in, there was a
large pile of second hand MDF (slightly trimmed down 8x4 15mm sheets)
that had clearly been used as temporary partitioning during a
refurbishment job (the stickers on it made it fairly clear where). It
has made building bookshelves a very cheap pastime.

Indeed - if you can be in the right place at the right time, there can
be a bonanza of free materials if they people running the site are
amenable. I have a mate with a lockup full of ply and OSB from such an
encounter!


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Cheers,

John.

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