What do you pay to dump home construction debris? $75, $25 per carload or 0.10 cents/lb?

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Don2222

Don2222

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Hello

My contractor remodeled our bath and left all the construction debris under our deck outside!
He had no way to dispose of it!

Burning all the wood is one option. Lots of old moldings and casings and some hollow wooden doors.

Our town's 20 year contract to take residential construction debris ran out so they will not take anything!

There is a private commercial dump in town where there is a stream of huge trucks going in and out all day.
They do $75 per car load but the town made a deal. So if you go to the town hall and wait in line, you can get a pass for $25 per car load! However time is money too!

The other day I went to a city dump, no residential dump sticker needed.
They just charge 10 Cents per lb. That seems much more reasonable. Wish we could get that!

So What do you pay and how complex is your system?

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get a dumpster deliverd, and go big that way you could get rid of any other junk around the house. in my 7 years of remodeling i have gon through 5 20 yard dumpsters..
 
Enzo's Dad said:
get a dumpster deliverd, and go big that way you could get rid of any other junk around the house. in my 7 years of remodeling i have gon through 5 20 yard dumpsters..
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How much did that cost?
 
depends on the size, usually from $150 to $350 ..20 yards is huge but i have gutted an entire house so it adds up fast.
 
I just bag it in demo bags, and throw out a bag a week all summer.
 
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All the waste wood that is not pressure treated or painted goes in the wood stove. Metal goes to the recycle center and everything else goes out with the garbage if it fits in the can. If it dont fit. i make it fit.
PS Thats the first time i ever heard of a contractor that leaves the debris for the homeowner to deal with.
 
Seasoned Oak said:
All the waste wood that is not pressure treated or painted goes in the wood stove. Metal goes to the recycle center and everything else goes out with the garbage if it fits in the can. If it dont fit. i make it fit.
PS Thats the first time i ever heard of a contractor that leaves the debris for the homeowner to deal with.
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Getting rid of the debris is a cost that some customers just don't want to pay for. I give them the option. On small jobs, its usually left behind when people see the cost of a small dumpter or a bagster.
 
I'm a contractor and generally the standard is having a dumpster delivered. It's amazing how much debris accumulates on even the smallest jobs. On jobs I get where money is a little tighter and the job is small I will load up my pickup and go to the recycling center in my town. They typically charge me by the truck load, $35.
 
Where I live each household is allowed to 1500 lbs / calendar year for dump drop offs. If you go over, I think it's about 10 cents/lb.

However we have a program (that I DO NOT SUPPORT): every 6 months (may and november), you can put bigger items roadside and they will be picked up (appliances, mattresses, etc). But this removal goes to a 3rd party and costs over $200 000. And not to mention weeks before the pickup dates people start piling large amounts of junk roadside...ick. People should just get rid of it themselves...

Andrew
 
Swedishchef said:
However we have a program (that I DO NOT SUPPORT): every 6 months (may and november), you can put bigger items roadside and they will be picked up (appliances, mattresses, etc). But this removal goes to a 3rd party and costs over $200 000. And not to mention weeks before the pickup dates people start piling large amounts of junk roadside...ick. People should just get rid of it themselves...
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They will get rid off that stuff by just dumping it somewhere. In the end, pulling those things out from there will cost more than $200,000. In my hometown, they also went for a few years to charging for large item disposal. It was incredible how much of that stuff was suddenly found dumped along the roadside. ;sick It id not take long and they went back to free pickup a few times a year.
 
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Appliances and any type of scrap metal can be cashed in at any recycle business at about 10c a pound. People do this for a living around here. Almost daily i see a truck go by with 10-20 appliances headed for the recycle center. Its so profitable kids are stealing man hole covers from the streets to cash in.
 
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Seasoned Oak said:
Appliances and any type of scrap metal can be cashed in at any recycle business at about 10c a pound. People do this for a living around here. Almost daily i see a truck go by with 10-20 appliances headed for the recycle center. Its so profitable kids are stealing man hole covers from the streets to cash in.
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Funny, at our recycle center the waste contractor gets paid to remove the scrap steel and the town still charges it's own residents to bring it in. Both the town and the waste contractor are getting paid!

I go to the scrap yard myself if I have a trips worth or I CL ad the scrap if it's a small amount.
 
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They will get rid off that stuff by just dumping it somewhere. In the end, pulling those things out from there will cost more than $200,000. In my hometown, they also went for a few years to charging for large item disposal. It was incredible how much of that stuff was suddenly found dumped along the roadside. ;sick It id not take long and they went back to free pickup a few times a year.
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Never thought about that happening.. Very valid point!
 
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Swedishchef said:
Where I live each household is allowed to 1500 lbs / calendar year for dump drop offs. If you go over, I think it's about 10 cents/lb.

However we have a program (that I DO NOT SUPPORT): every 6 months (may and november), you can put bigger items roadside and they will be picked up (appliances, mattresses, etc). But this removal goes to a 3rd party and costs over $200 000. And not to mention weeks before the pickup dates people start piling large amounts of junk roadside...ick. People should just get rid of it themselves...

Andrew
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We have a county program that has designated garbage weekends in April and October. The drop off point is less than a mile from my house and there's a garbage truck and three huge dumpsters set up. There's also a guy with a backhoe for anything that's too heavy to lift.
I usually have a project every winter. This winter was the living room, last was a bathroom and the one before that was another bathroom. I've taken everything from bathtubs to trailers full of ceramic tile and bricks. If it's not toxic and not an appliance, they take it.

I'm spoiled now although I can empathize with the OP. I did a total upstairs rehab, among others things on our last house and it was frustrating finding ways of disposing of debris. In the end, I found it was much cheaper to rent a dumpster than haul it to the dump myself. Although, one bathroom doesn't sound like a lot of debris. Even with bathtub, toilet and tiles it wouldn't seem like enough to fill a small dumpster.
 
Never dumped construction debris but a few years ago I took a load of my rotted stack pallets to the dump when I changed them out for new ones. Trailer would only hold eleven of them. They made me go over the scale and charged me six bucks and change to dump the things.

Came home and built a burn pit.
 
Seasoned Oak said:
Appliances and any type of scrap metal can be cashed in at any recycle business at about 10c a pound. People do this for a living around here. Almost daily i see a truck go by with 10-20 appliances headed for the recycle center. Its so profitable kids are stealing man hole covers from the streets to cash in.
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Three years ago I sold three grand worth scrap value of telecom cables and cords to a recycle outfit here. They got license number, required ID and did everything but fingerprint me. I told them I was probably the only guy that had been there in a year that had the invoices from when I bought the stuff. The guy said I was probably right.
 
1.675 cents/lb at landfill here. 2.175 cents/lb at transfer stations.
Surrounding counties 3-5 cents/lb. Some surrounding counties also have an environmental fee per truck across scale. $35 each + tonnage rate.
 
I've never looked at the cost to dump, each township in my county sponsors a "clean up days" weekend where you can take just about anything and they'll take it. There's several dumpsters set up, and a front end loader to help you get it out of your truck/trailer and into the dumpster.

Sadly even with that a lot of people just dump things on the side of the road. My parents live along a small river, and all summer long people stop along the road upstream from them and dump trash (old couches, roofing materials, windows, insulation). There isn't a house around to see it happening, and when the river floods it's all taken downstream to my parents place. The dump location is on the county line, so every year my parents end up fighting both counties to try to get it cleaned up since both counties are SURE the trash is on the other county's property.
 
In my county 1/2 ton pickup loads are $22. Not sure what they charge for 3/4 and 1 tons. It doesn't really matter what you weigh either. I've gone there with the bed loaded to the rails and with an entire 8x8 plywood shed cut into sections and stacked 3' higher than the cab and held down with ratchet straps-it was the same charge each time. I practically start crying when I go to the county transfer station sometimes. The amount of metal I see people bringing and PAYING to get rid of is unreal. They have signs all over saying "NO SCAVENGING ON TIPPING FLOOR." The workers of course pull the metal off to the side as the folks are unloading. I've seen people bring in cast aluminum patio sets, copper pipe/flashing/gutters, etc... Little do they know if they went just a little further down the highway there's a scrapyard that would pay THEM for the stuff. I've thought about camping outside the gate on the public road on Saturdays and catching folks as they come in so as not to run afoul of the scavenging rules.
 
These recycle centers are great. I even got rid of my chipper. I just drop off take the brush and limbs to the center and pick up a ton of already finished compost in the same trip. No waiting 6 weeks for compost.
 
.20/lb. In my town. Others charge by truck load or size of pile, eyeballed, no scales ($15-50). One town gets $24/square for shingles. All debris needs to be disposed of in the town it's generated in, unless using a private pay facility, but nearest one is nearly an hour away.
Dumpsters $350 +/- for a 15 yard w weight limit.
Waste management dumpster bag, $220 and you can stuff it, tight to pack, but high weight limits. With a little effort, great easy solution that doesn't destroy a yard or driveway.

As a contractor, clean up and debris disposal is always included and noted in any proposals. It's a factor of every project we do, new construction is probably the cleanest, at least you can plan accordingly to minimize waste and a lot of scraps are kindling worthy.
 
I pay 125 to dump my 19 yard dump truck at the dump, or around $265 for a 10 yard roll off dumpster or 365 for a 20 yard roll off. I can have them move the roll off from on job to another for $20 but after you have it for 2 weeks they charge $1.50 day more
 
Right around $300 for a 30 yard roll off. For truck loads I take it to a recycling place that sorts through it and they charge a flat $51 for 0.5-1.5 tons (which the average pickup load usually falls in this range)
 
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