Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

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John Stumbles

A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
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On Jun 10, 2:00*pm, John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

It's usually OSB that I see round here and I always assumed it was
dumped.

MBQ

"John Stumbles" wrote in message
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Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

--
John Stumbles

A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?

Boarding House?

John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

Usually OSB and its dumped. Bloke I know runs a large construction company.
Last job they spent £9K on boarding & painting it and scrapped the lot when
finished.

£9K in a £1.1 million contract - they can't be bothered to do anything but
dump it.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In article ,
John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

Most of the stuff I see on our campus appears to be scrapped once the
building work is finished. It's an impressive contruction job with
serious posts and then the whole lot is painted (often in multiple colours)
then all just scrapped :-/

Guess it's insignificant on a couple of million quid building job.

Many years back the gas board were building some sort of pumping station
over the road from my parents. All hording there was 3/4 inch ply - decent
stuff. When they were finishing the site dad asked them what happened to
it and they showed us where it was going to be stacked before being burnt
in a huge bonfire.

Next day their fire was a lot smaller than planned. Dads workshop is
still solid 20 years later and his mates loft has the most impressive
over spec boarding I've ever seen ;-)

Darren

The Medway Handyman wrote:
John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

Usually OSB and its dumped. Bloke I know runs a large construction company.
Last job they spent £9K on boarding & painting it and scrapped the lot when
finished.

£9K in a £1.1 million contract - they can't be bothered to do anything but
dump it.

And it will probably have prevented many times £9Ks worth of pilfering
in the process!

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Cheers,

John.

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dmc wrote:
In article ,
John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

Most of the stuff I see on our campus appears to be scrapped once the
building work is finished. It's an impressive contruction job with
serious posts and then the whole lot is painted (often in multiple colours)
then all just scrapped :-/

Guess it's insignificant on a couple of million quid building job.

Many years back the gas board were building some sort of pumping station
over the road from my parents. All hording there was 3/4 inch ply - decent
stuff. When they were finishing the site dad asked them what happened to
it and they showed us where it was going to be stacked before being burnt
in a huge bonfire.

Next day their fire was a lot smaller than planned. Dads workshop is
still solid 20 years later and his mates loft has the most impressive
over spec boarding I've ever seen ;-)

Darren

In this financial climate you'd think someone would think to dump it
in an auction.


NT

John Rumm coughed up some electrons that declared:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

Usually OSB and its dumped. Bloke I know runs a large construction
company. Last job they spent £9K on boarding & painting it and scrapped
the lot when finished.

£9K in a £1.1 million contract - they can't be bothered to do anything
but dump it.

And it will probably have prevented many times £9Ks worth of pilfering
in the process!


Unless someone pilfers the boarding for their shed!

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something
like:

Many years back the gas board were building some sort of pumping station
over the road from my parents. All hording there was 3/4 inch ply - decent
stuff. When they were finishing the site dad asked them what happened to
it and they showed us where it was going to be stacked before being burnt
in a huge bonfire.

Next day their fire was a lot smaller than planned. Dads workshop is
still solid 20 years later and his mates loft has the most impressive
over spec boarding I've ever seen ;-)

Darren

In this financial climate you'd think someone would think to dump it
in an auction.


Nah, there's always some money to waste.
The most wasteful episode I heard about was up at Sullom Voe - when the
oil terminal was finished, much of the mobile plant was driven into a
huge hole and buried. Not worth their while to bring it back to the
mainland and the cost of it had been amortised.

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dmc wrote:
In article ,
John Stumbles wrote:
Medium to large-ish building sites always seem to be boarded off with
acres of 8x4 ply sheets, painted. And posts to fix it all on. Where
does it all go afterwards? (Thinking of cheap shed materials :-))

Most of the stuff I see on our campus appears to be scrapped once the
building work is finished. It's an impressive contruction job with
serious posts and then the whole lot is painted (often in multiple
colours)
then all just scrapped :-/

Guess it's insignificant on a couple of million quid building job.

Many years back the gas board were building some sort of pumping station
over the road from my parents. All hording there was 3/4 inch ply -
decent
stuff. When they were finishing the site dad asked them what happened to
it and they showed us where it was going to be stacked before being burnt
in a huge bonfire.

Next day their fire was a lot smaller than planned. Dads workshop is
still solid 20 years later and his mates loft has the most impressive
over spec boarding I've ever seen ;-)

Darren

In this financial climate you'd think someone would think to dump it
in an auction.


NT

Builders are the worse people for filling up landfill sites. Offices near me
being refurbished - the builders just treat all waste in the same manner -
even copper pipes.