Nice find down the tip.

[Colour Republic]

There is a shocking statistic that some 13% of materials delivered to the average site gets chucked straight into the skip!

I have salvaged brand new welsh slate out of a skip before now along with other stuff. The public toilets in the village were being refurbished and it seems that at the end of the job they just chucked the surplus away. It seems its cheaper than carting it back to the depot

I can relate to this, years ago I was on a site in Three Bridges where they had just built 30 new town houses. It was the end of the job and I was doing the general snagging. At the end of the snagging they asked me to clear 4 full size containers into skips! 1 was full of guttering, sofit and facia, 1 of them was full of brand new kitchens, 1 was full of bathrooms and the other 1 of doors, flooring, paint etc. etc. I asked if I could maybe make the skips a bit lighter but the site manager said If I wanted anything i'd have to take it under the cover of darkness and he would turn a blind eye as it was policy not to let tradesmen take materials off site even after a job, although he agreed it was madness it was still cheaper to bin it then to move it to a different site and most new sites would have a different spec anyway. I'd hate to think the value of what I chucked away that day:yikes:

 

[cornish_crofter]

Forgot about this one....

Recently found 2 boxes of KAI white tiles at the tip. Paid £1.50 for the lot. Not the best of tiles I grant you but they do sell them in B&Q, and they are straight and consistent.

Sorting my rubbish out this evening and found that I had acquired another 1/2 box of these, from the same place FOC so I've put them all together. These will probably do a cheap kitchen splashback for someone......

 

[Leatherface]

Agree too much waste in today's society. Just got a silly picture in my head of Cornish getting rid of the van and pushing one of these around instead, looking for "Treasure"

 

[faithhealer]

Forgot about this one....

Recently found 2 boxes of KAI white tiles at the tip. Paid £1.50 for the lot. Not the best of tiles I grant you but they do sell them in B&Q, and they are straight and consistent.

Sorting my rubbish out this evening and found that I had acquired another 1/2 box of these, from the same place FOC so I've put them all together. These will probably do a cheap kitchen splashback for someone......

I bet you can't get in your garage CC lol

 

[cornish_crofter]

That's part of my problem. I'm trying to clear out a part of my house that we are going to be converting.