Disposal of roofing felt
On 12/02/2019 00:30, Harold Davis wrote:
GB wrote in :
On 11/02/2019 16:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Data point: a small transit sized van has more room in than a 8 yard
skip, and costs less to hire.
I had some stuff to dispose of in MIL's garage. I thought 'not much
there', but it completely filled a hired transit.
Cost all in of the transit was £38 for half a day. Plus, some money for
my son for helping. Compared to £150 +VAT which was the cheapest quote
from the rubbish clearance firms.
The man at the council has now quoted me at around £140 per tonne. So with
50 sq m and 2 kg per sq m that's 0.1 tonnes for £14. He did say that the
contractor would need a licence whereas I don't so long as I'm throwing
away my own stuff.
I could spend a few hours slashing the felt into 33 pieces of say 1m x 1.5m
and do 2 or 3 journeys in a SEAT Alhambra with the back seats removed and
2nd row folded. That's a lot of slashing, but worth the effort for £1386
minus car fuel.
Those are the sort of sums that made me determoine that renovating my
house was going to be done by me, to my standards, not at £200 a day to
some cints slapdash standards.
Harry
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