Demolition arisings, rubble, timber and muckaway taken off site by grab or tipper. Loads are weighed at a licensed facility and the tickets come back to you rather than staying with the contractor.
Haulage cost is set less by how much material there is than by what can get to it. A grab lorry needs room to reach and a surface that will take the weight; a narrow lane, an overhead cable or a weak crossing can force the whole job onto small tippers, which triples the number of loads for the same tonnage.
Parking suspensions and permits take time to arrange, and on a busy street they are the difference between loading and blocking traffic all day. We look at access before quoting and price the vehicle that can actually get in, rather than the cheapest one and a variation later.
Waste from your property remains your responsibility in law even after somebody else has driven away with it, which is why the carrier registration and the transfer documentation matter rather than being administrative decoration. Fly-tipped demolition waste is regularly traced back to the property it came from, and the owner rather than the contractor picks up the consequence.
So it is entirely reasonable to ask a contractor for their carrier registration and their disposal facility before they load anything, and a contractor who is vague about either is telling you something. We give both without being asked and return the weighbridge tickets and transfer notes as a matter of course.
Yes, along with the transfer notes. Waste from your property stays your legal responsibility after it leaves, so the paperwork belongs with you rather than with us.
Grab is usually cheaper per tonne for rubble and needs no permit on private ground. Skips suit slower jobs and mixed waste. Access decides it more than preference does.
Then smaller vehicles and more loads, which is why we look at access before quoting. Discovering it on the day is how a haulage price changes.
On a public road, usually, and a parking suspension takes time to arrange. On private ground normally not. We tell you which applies and arrange it.
Yes, and it usually costs less overall. Segregated rubble, metal and timber attract lower rates than a mixed load and produce a better recovery figure.
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