Had a job cancelled at the last minute (bereavement) so I was left with a free day today. Decided not switch in another job as it would give me a day to sort out the workshop.
I seem to have rather a lot of 'useful offcuts of timber'.
Can someone confirm that it is still a mortal sin to throw away any piece of timber that might come in handy one day?
SWMBO is making suggestions that I should throw some of it away!!!
I suffer from the same malady, lots of timber offcuts of which I'll probably use about 5 percent, but if I want a particular shaped bit that's just the right size I'll bet I'll have thrown it out the previous weekend.
I also seem to have 3 electric kettles! (apart form the one I actually use!
I'm off to the freecycle website now.
dedics
I offer to throw out my offcuts when Management agrees to throw out her collections of material, wool, clothes, children's' toys (the daughters are both >30 years old now) and part rolls of no longer current wallpaper.
The offcuts are safe...
You shouldn't have said that. Partner *has* cleared all such things out. So where does that leave me and my piles of bits of wood? I am sure most of them could come in useful... :-)
Nail hammer head.
I occasionally have a purge of the smaller bits (less than say a short 15" long and of 2x1 cross section) and these go on the fire.
Tell her it's your small contribution to saving a rainforest ;-)
Don.
Woodburner.
Provided such timber is decently cremated, no sin is committed my son.
I don't have "stock" and "firewood", I just have "timber". I use whatever's smallest but can do the job, I burn the very smallest stuff, starting with dust and shavings. In extremis, I might burn the whole logs, but rarely.
The piece you want will come in handy the day after you throw it away.
If you throw it away she will start nagging about other things.
Adam
Tell me about it. I'm in the process of house clearance, and have got a good few pieces of new wood. What I need is the hardware shop of my childhood that had an offcut bin, whose contents kept me busy many a weekend.
I have often thought that a useful adjunct to our council dump would be a builders shed where one could drop off odd stuff that was capable of reuse - wood, the half box of tiles etc etc.
The message from "The Medway Handyman" contains these words:
No! No!! No!!! You mustn't!!
To throw away potentially useful bits of timber is a cardinal sin, in my book! I've got a husband who nags me about 'potentially useful' bits of wood, too, and I'm sure he took the chance to throw out the occasional bit every time I went down to London, to visit some of my family.
I hide the shed keys now...
In message , The Medway Handyman writes
The proper term for this disease is *squirrelitis* although the Australians use the word possibles to describe items of this nature.
It might be thought the availability of farm buildings would attenuate the piles of can't be thrown away stuff. In fact it develops an acute form where not only ones own stuff accumulates but that of family, neighbours and distant acquaintances as well.
Now, while I have your attention, can anyone remember who left that hydraulic access platform here?
regards
I've discovered almost any kind of builders waste can either be freecycled - or burnt - about the only thing left is pvc packaging.
Enjoy it while you've got it, it will come in handy helping you to make higher heaps of useful stuff.
Owain
Not all that much pvc - it's usually polyethylene...
Packaging drives me mad. To cope with the variety of work I have a 'electrics' bag a 'plumbing' bag & a 'general' bag on the van to keep specialist tools sorted. Natuarly some duplication happens, but each bag contains a stanley knife to remove plastic packaging. I also carry a pair of aviation tin snips in the 'backup' box for extra tough packaging. Not uncommon to end up with a bin bag full of useless but balistic grade packaging.
Not much different to normal household stuff then. Even a pack of six cans of lemonady-type drink is shrink-wrapped with poly which isn't easy to tear - it seems to have taken over from a simple cardboard sleeve.
I've got rid of a lot of stuff through Freecycle, but have had no success with wood - wrong sort of area I suspect.
Sensible woman.
Sheila
I build model aircraft.
The number of times I need a 'bit of timber' than can be satisfied from the scrap box is about 5% of the time I need a spanking new piece.
The same goes for copper pipe when plumbing
So my advices is throw away or burn 90% of the stock. The smaller it is, the less use it is.
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