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Ryan, used to do about a thousand feet of fencing a week and would end up with alot of 1×6 cedar scraps (6″ to 12″ long). Found that the cub scouts and boy scouts love the stuff to make birdhouses.
We have a company nearby that makes mulch out of yard waste and tree trimmings, and they’ll take used lumber if it has the nails removed. Even terminte infested wood. They grind it all up in a huge chipper.
As for metal waste (alum siding, windows, plumbing) there’s always a junk guy that’ll haul it off for free.
Brick, mortar, and ripped out tile goes to a septic company I know. They use it for fill in the field lines, I guess.
Just be sure that you’re charging the customer to get the stuff where it needs to go (I call it disposal cost) because if you’re giving it away, it’s much easier to unload. And if you still pile it in the backyard, you’ll have something to buy the wife a present as a peace offering.
Dave
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Ryan, for what it's worth, here in Texas or at least in my county, landfills are classed. Class III dumps are for construction debries, concrete, and dirt -- no household garbage. Here, there's only one Class III in the yellow pages, but at least a dozen of them exist. Maybe a call to a concrete demo company in your area might yeild some unadvertised sources to dump.
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Another source might be a concrete supplier. Here mif you are on good terms with the local concrete supplier you can put clean fill into the area they are digging out for gravel because they have to refill the site when they are done. Clean fgill means no toxic, no hosusehold, no friable ( fiberglass etc)
*Bigger jobs get a dumpster. Smallest get bagged and the garbage man takes it. In between and a call to my local junk man takes care of it. There's a bucnh around here. I leave a neat pile at the jobsite, ontop of a tarp, and covered. He comes usually when I'm not there, and the pile is removed, the tarps neatly folded, and the site swept clean. Usually $100 to $150 for a big pick-up size load. It's billed to the job cost and is well worth the cost, even if I have to do it a few times thru out the job. Key is to find someone that takes everything and cleans up everything. Jeff
*Ryan,When the trash is too much to fit in with my household trash, and too little for a dumpster, I usually use someone else's dumpster. With their permission of course. I can get rid of quite a bit that way. In return, I usually clean up around the dumpster. If it doesn't want to fit, I pull out the cardboard and take it to the recycle dropoff. Sometimes I do work for the guy and then knock $20 off the bill for dumpster use.There are a lot of dumpsters around that never fill up.Rich Beckman
*Sounds like you might want a small dumpster at your place permanantly. You know those ones that hold maybe 1/2 yard or so that they back up to and lift hydraulically? Maybe you could have them pick up only once a month, or even just when you call them or something.
*In my area,in the classified section of the local paper there are tons of guys with pick up trucks and small dump trucks who do job site clean-ups,garage tear-downs,basement clean-outs etc. For less than the price of a dumpster they will come and haul it away.I use the same guy all the time----he has good equipment that doesn't leak oil in my customers driveways.He cleans up the yard and hauls away shingles for $7/sq.If I am just doing a repair and only generate a trashcan or so of debris I just put it in the can and haul it to the next job that the dump truck is coming to.The clean up guys minimum charge is $50.I have him come every day to the larger jobs so that my customers don't have to look at piles of trash each night or suffer the inconvenience of a dumpster for the duration of the job.good luck All,Stephen
*I usually burn wood trash on site or haul to my house outside of city limits and burn if the job is in the city. Cedar is excellent kindling wood although it does pop some. We have a burn ban in effect now due to the unusual drought. I have stuff piled up from 2 or 3 jobs and am waiting on rain so i can burn it. Normally this is not a problem....I burn in a low area in my pasture that needs filling. Hopefully in 20 yrs enough ash will level the spot out........I know yall all cant do this but im in redneck country and scrapping any way i can.......P.S.....send all your aluminum, brass, copper and other metal scraps to me.....If you will pay the postage I will make sure they find a good home at the scrap yard.....I usually make 20dollars a job cash money when I haul all the plumbers, electricial/ac and aluminum siding mans scraps to the scrap yare........and im saving on clean up costs too...
*Box it, cover with gift wrapping with a bow, leave it all in the back of your pickup and leave uncovered at any busy shopping center.Gabe
*I have an 8 yard dumpster that stays at my house. It costs me $63.00 a month, and they empty it every Friday. Sometimes the dumpster is full, sometimes not. I charge a dumpster fee for each job I do that has any debris hauloff. It pays for itself.James DuHamel
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I asked something similar several months ago but I'm in a fix again.
What do you do with job site debris? If I'm doing a big job, I'll get a dumpster on site but for most of my work, I end up with less than a pick up load of trash, sometimes just a bag or two. So what do I do with this.
I live in the middle of nowhere and I've got quite a bit of space on my property so I usually bring it home and throw the stuff in a small fenced in area behind on out building. Then, when I can't take it anymore, I get a dumpster and spend a day loading it into the dumpster.
I can't haul my own debris to the landfill here, State regulations.
We have a township dump (no trash pickup here) but All I can take is household trash.
I've thought about buying a garbage trailer but would still have to park it here until full and dump everything into the dumpster by hand several times a year. And I don't really want to drive to every site with the last job's trash in tow.
Any suggestions? What do you all do with trash. Right now, my debris pile is starting to peak out over my fence and it's not a pretty view from my hammock.
*What state won't let you go to the dump? can't understand that.If it's only a bag or two, tie it up tight and set it on the curb. Even if most garbage haulers wont take construction debris, I've found that if it is just a bag or so and they can't see it so well, it will go away with the rest of a homeowners weekly pile.Also, can't picture a wife that would let it pile up in the back yard!!!!!! Don't birng it home, no matter what. There are too many other things in life to have fights over.PB
*Have you considered taking up sculpture in your spare time? Seriously, I can't believe that there's no place for you to dump debris. If you can't sneak it into the household garbage in a double bag (so the tell-tale stud doesn't peak through), then it sounds like you're doing the only thing you can. But I really can't believe they won't let you take it to the dump. Strange.SHG
*It's true: Local township dump will take household dump only and I don't get to unload. I pull up with my truck and a few bags of pizza boxes and they throw the bags in the compactor and I drive away. I've slipped in a few bags of my debris but I can't possibly get rid of the four big contractor's bags of fencing cut offs I brought home on Friday. Oh, and the dump's open on Wednesdays and Saturdays only.And you've got to be a licenced waste hauler to use the county landfill. I looked into that and It's just not worth it. To expensive, too many record keeping requirements, state inspections, definately to keep me from doing this myself.Fortunately, I've got a penned in area to keep the junk in and it's just construction debris, no peanut butter sandwiches, but it's still a pain.
*Ryan, you'll have to contract with a licensed hauler. Try to arrange an amicable pick up schedule that would accomodate the hauler on days when he doesn't have a full load, and your load will top him off.blue
*Ryan, used to do about a thousand feet of fencing a week and would end up with alot of 1x6 cedar scraps (6" to 12" long). Found that the cub scouts and boy scouts love the stuff to make birdhouses.We have a company nearby that makes mulch out of yard waste and tree trimmings, and they'll take used lumber if it has the nails removed. Even terminte infested wood. They grind it all up in a huge chipper.As for metal waste (alum siding, windows, plumbing) there's always a junk guy that'll haul it off for free.Brick, mortar, and ripped out tile goes to a septic company I know. They use it for fill in the field lines, I guess.Just be sure that you're charging the customer to get the stuff where it needs to go (I call it disposal cost) because if you're giving it away, it's much easier to unload. And if you still pile it in the backyard, you'll have something to buy the wife a present as a peace offering.Dave
*Ryan:As Dave says above, if you list the debris removal on your bids as a separate line item, based on the fact that everyone is looking to save some money, I would think that some of your customers would elect to deal with the trash themselves.It seems very odd that there is no facility available to you. Where I live you can go to the public dump and pay by the hundred pounds (minimum charge applies) or, go to a private dump and pay by the truckload.