Council charging for waste now!

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Squarehead said:
I once did a small job for an elderly lady, she tried to pay me from a bag of coins.
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An old lady once gave me a home baked scone and a little mouse she knitted!

My dad was doing some painting for her. I showed him the mouse and he said she was knitting him a willy warmer but had run out of wool! Yuk! Pissed myself!
 
@imago mentioned in another thread last year should have a council waste carriers permit £200 for a year tbh wasn’t sure if that allows you take it to the council tip or not for free but his mathematical equation to make it pay back over the year was good
Tbf I always refuse to take any waste as I work to hard already
 
Vincey said:
@imago mentioned in another thread last year should have a council waste carriers permit £200 for a year tbh wasn’t sure if that allows you take it to the council tip or not for free but his mathematical equation to make it pay back over the year was good
Tbf I always refuse to take any waste as I work to hard already
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That's just so that you can legally carry 'waste'. You have to have one to book in with commercial waste, the fee to tip is on top of that and varies across the country. If you get a pull at a spot check anything that can count as waste will mean you get a big fine if you haven't got a license.
 
TedTheSpread92 said:
So I know this isn't exactly an interesting topic but where I live in Ashford, Kent the council are now charging £6 per sheet or bag of plasterboard and £4 per sack of rubble/hardcore, plaster once set is classed as rubble so as you can imagine this is going to add up.
Who knows of a better way in getting rid of waste. Other local councils are also charging so that's out the question.
It's stupid, going to cost more disposing of waste than it actually is buying the materials.
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bag it up on job and tell customer its their problem to get shut of it
 
Danny said:
I have said it before... a skip car....

I dont think it should be down to the customer to sort the rubbish out so I have always taken it away then normally waited till I have had a car full then drive to the household waste and dump it like all the other DIYers.
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I have a van with sign writing on so not allowed at council dump
 
The Hobo said:
I have a van with sign writing on so not allowed at council dump
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You can here if it's household waste, you need to apply for a permit, that it is domestic from your own property. Lasts 24hrs.but be sure you have a waste carriers license, because if the spot check you have non domestic in it.. Your fined. Cost me £230 for 3 years waste carrier.
 
Donzo said:
You can here if it's household waste, you need to apply for a permit, that it is domestic from your own property. Lasts 24hrs.but be sure you have a waste carriers license, because if the spot check you have non domestic in it.. Your fined. Cost me £230 for 3 years waste carrier.
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there is a big vosa check point half a mile from me so I don't take any risk
 
Danny said:
I have said it before... a skip car....

I dont think it should be down to the customer to sort the rubbish out so I have always taken it away then normally waited till I have had a car full then drive to the household waste and dump it like all the other DIYers.
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I'm not taking the p1ss, but it's a bit different if you're a full time tradesman (should that be tradesperson now?). Leave aside the volumes of stuff I generate on a large job, it's the bitty stuff that's the hassle. Stuff like couple of board off cuts, some empty gripfill tubes, half a tin of paint, that's where it gets expensive by volume.

As others have said, it's a cost to the customer as it's generated by the work they're paying for. I wouldn't leave it on site, but it would be accounted for in the price.
 
imago said:
I'm not taking the p1ss, but it's a bit different if you're a full time tradesman (should that be tradesperson now?). Leave aside the volumes of stuff I generate on a large job, it's the bitty stuff that's the hassle. Stuff like couple of board off cuts, some empty gripfill tubes, half a tin of paint, that's where it gets expensive by volume.

As others have said, it's a cost to the customer as it's generated by the work they're paying for. I wouldn't leave it on site, but it would be accounted for in the price.
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NO /your a plasterer not a bin man
 
JessThePlasterer said:
An old lady once gave me a home baked scone and a little mouse she knitted!

My dad was doing some painting for her. I showed him the mouse and he said she was knitting him a willy warmer but had run out of wool! Yuk! Pissed myself!
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Nice one dad.
Once had a woman give me a little posie of flowers. Wilted and fully limp by the time I got home..... flowers a sorry state too.
 
JessThePlasterer said:
Ha ha!!

But seriously wtf?! Who gives flowers to their blokey plasterer lol! Even I’d think that was weird!
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I like unusual things, but yes, it was a bit weird. I showed my wife the limp bizkit when I got in and we both chuckled. Better that than when i had a female customer stalk me for a while. Now that was weird and a bit f**k**g annoying in the end, especially whilst ringing me continuously on holiday.
 
imago said:
I'm not taking the p1ss, but it's a bit different if you're a full time tradesman (should that be tradesperson now?). Leave aside the volumes of stuff I generate on a large job, it's the bitty stuff that's the hassle. Stuff like couple of board off cuts, some empty gripfill tubes, half a tin of paint, that's where it gets expensive by volume.

As others have said, it's a cost to the customer as it's generated by the work they're paying for. I wouldn't leave it on site, but it would be accounted for in the price.
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When I was full time on the big jobs there were always skips and on the small jobs I just took it to my garage and waited till I had a car load and drove it 3 miles down the road to the tip....
 
Squarehead said:
I like unusual things, but yes, it was a bit weird. I showed my wife the limp bizkit when I got in and we both chuckled. Better that than when i had a female customer stalk me for a while. Now that was weird and a bit f**k**g annoying in the end, especially whilst ringing me continuously on holiday.
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I had a stalker for about 6months. Disgusting pervert. Scared the s**t out of me.

Want to make a club? We could make friendship bracelets, talk about our feelings and put a sign outside the clubhouse that says “no stalkers allowed” right? :rebotando:
 
Hardley ever have to take rubbish . Tell em I.m not licenced . If on odd occasion I have to take a bag of to I.ll just shiver it in a skip on another job or chuck it in household over a few weeks
 
Open bag of the plaster is classed as waste... They need to sort this out and make it clear rather than random fines
 
"In August 2018, a high profile story was published by a number of news outlets about a roofer who was fined £300 for carrying a plastic bag with empty crisps packets in his van. "

You can be fined up to £5,000 for not having a license if you should, and basically any tradesman/woman should.

More info here.
 
imago said:
"In August 2018, a high profile story was published by a number of news outlets about a roofer who was fined £300 for carrying a plastic bag with empty crisps packets in his van. "

You can be fined up to £5,000 for not having a license if you should, and basically any tradesman/woman should.

More info here.
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I.m not damaging environment though I.m saving it in cab
 
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