Happened to notice a new build going up and dump some goodies in a skip as they are just doing the snagging. Managed to get around 50 brand new, 7 newton blocks. Movin that lot certainly burnt a few calories! Theres still more in there, but imagine they'll be gone by the time I go back! A couple of years ago I managed to find a skip near a commercial build which had around 6 bales of shrink wrapped soundpoofing rockwool slabs.
Dave
I read somewhere once that something like 1/4 of all the building materials delivered to a site leave in a skip.
We have builders on site at the moment, and they had their tonne of builders sand delivered straight into the skip, since they needed more than was economic in 25kg bags, but less than a tonne.
(And yes, it's safely in my orchard, now...)
Seeing that I suppose a lot of sites are occupied by subbies they haven't anywhere to store it so in the skip it goes..
Once rescued around 200 still wrapped carpet tiles from a skip with the builders permission.. Seems the wrong ones had been ordered and the suppler wouldn't take them back so rubbish they were!...
Best thing out of a skip was at a radio station .. a Studer B67 tape recorder, and thats now in a new home:))..
I once got several modular ceiling light fittings from outside an office refurb. I used them as temporary lighting when plastering/decorating, hung on a picture hook or propped up against a wall. Kept one for future use, but junked the others after the decorating (they'd got splashed with various things).
and another 1/4 leave in the back of someone's van...
My best trophy from a skip-dive was Garrard 301 turntable - but I had a client once who came in with a Selmer Model 22 baritone sax he'd pulled out of a skip in Notting Hill....it was covered in brick dust but otherwise unharmed. Finding something like that in a skip is rather like finding someone has dumped a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost in your back garden.
Regards,
When I was struggling with floorboard-sanding operations and found that some boards had been wrecked in a couple of rooms, one of my neighbours kindly decided that their dirty old victorian floorboards needed to be replaced with some nice clean chipboard. So rather than paying an astronomical price for a poor match at an architectural salvage yard I got replacement boards from the same batch which the builder originally used in 1875 (plus a few spares in reserve).
Cheers!
Martin
snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
There's a brand spankin' steel i-beam hanging out both ends of a skip down the road...
My best find was three jacobean panelled doors and My second best find was twenty Victorian oak and glass library cupboard doors
I'm working on a building site in France atm but all the builders are Polish so I expect it is a Polish habit to not have a skip. Every day or two anything which is burnable is burnt, which leaves tins and glass and plastic. That is put into any likely looking container and removed from site who knows where
I bet there is some EU regulation they are violating
Anna
my best find was a scelextrix track, had it not rained the box would have looked brand new. This pales alongside my skiphopping mate, he pullet two petrol strimmers out of the same skip. He took the spark plug out of the second, and the first now works.
As in taking it is theft?
FFS what is wrong with you?
Yes, technically its theft, but in reality its not. The crime is throwing away perfectly good items that could be reused.
Is doing 32mph in a 30 limit speeding? Is stopping on a yellow line for two minutes a real offence? Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
What colour is the sky on your planet?
See below.
See below.
Several. As in d-e-n-n-i-s
As in have you ever known anyone in charge of a skip to say 'No' when you ask if you can remove something from it? The usual response is "Blimey guv, sure - take the bleedin' lot".
Regards,
Thank you, I belong to your church. I cannot comprehend this idiot use of speed cameras and that speed is the cause of accidents. Of course it is if inappropriate.When the rain is thundering down whilst travelling on the motorway, I have had to reduce my speed to 20 mph and less for all's safety sake, ( crumbles, I recall having to drop to less than 11mph on the M11 circa 15 years ago due to the conditions) . I frequently used to commute on a motorway in the Midlands, whilst a lady in her 50's ( I'm just still in my
50's) used to drive at circa 45 mph causing HGVs to overtake and cause risks to all. Why she was not pulled over and banned escapes me.I have to confess to having being done for doing 36 mph ( I think it was without checking, it might have been 39), a few years ago just inside a recently moved limit, where it was 40 mph for many years. The Income Crew sited their camera so that all could be seen to exceed the new 30 mph at the transition point and were clobbered with no regard to safety issues. I did not pursue the case but I am sure that my rear bumper was still in the 40mph zone when I was done!
The best I found not that I have time to actually go searching, was
100yds of chain link fencing in two pieces. They were new and the builder had used them to secure his site during construction. I managed to work out how to stitch the two pieces together so that the length was enough to go around the rear of our property. Until then it had been part of a short for locals heading for the railway station.In the process of fencing I also enclosed a useless to them section of public land, which I was later able to legally claim as mine, because no one had noticed or complained about it in ten years - I understand the process is not quite so easy these days.
So I got the fencing free and got some free extra land out of the skip too :-)
Stephen Howard formulated on Friday :
The more you remove from the skip, the less they pay for it to be taken away to landfill, the less landfill...
Basically one of those rare case where everyone wins. I do think the law ought to be changed to make it legal for items placed in bins and skips to be reclaimed without concerns about being accused of theft.
I had asked the builder if I might take the (above) chain link fencing, as expected he had agreed, but I needed my trailer to be able to shift it and it wasn't until the evening that I could organise it. In the early evening whilst collecting it out of the skip still in broad daylight, some busy body came out and threatened to call the police if we didn't put it back. All you can really do is say go ahead, there is my cars registration number, make a note of it.
That is dangerous. When your front bumper is only doing 30...
In my case, we left potentially useful items stacked outside the hedge on the verge..with a sign saying 'help yourself' a few people knocked and asked. most just took.
It reduced the skip charges.
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Too right, over the last few years I've had about 12 skips, always delighted when stuff was taken out. I always made sure anything remotely useful was clearly visible on top.
The best things I used to get out of skips was Victorian cast iron fireplaces. Haven't seen one of those in a skip for the past fifteen years or so.
UK-DIY once again veres wildly off topic :-)
What I'd like to know is when the present 30 & 40 limits came into being - and what braking systems were common at the time?
Compare & contrast a 1953 Ford Popular with its 7" drum brakes & cross ply tyres, with a modern car with ABS, servo, discs, radials etc. Sure the reaction time of the driver might be the same, but the braking efficiency of the vehicle is entirely different.
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