Excess materials

[sy76uk]

What do you lads down with yours?
I've got quite a bit stored up in my yard now.
I could probably do a small garden project with it all.
Don't know weather to wait for a customer to ask for a job doing in the stuff I already have or do some kind of promotion?

[KAMIKAZEE DIY]

Would it be possible to build a display somewhere to show off your work to passing commuters etc,or on a new build estate where people are going to need work done?

[sy76uk]

I've got a display plot at a local stone merchant that I'll beach doing over the winter months. They are supplying

[Tony McC]

Every now and again you get a customer wanting a cheaper-than-cheap bit of hardstanding for a cravan or shed - ideal opportunity to get rid of all those half packs of blocks and leftover flags

[rxbren]

I use to stockpile bits but it never got used or would be sat there for a long time. For blocks depending on amount and where they come from I now return them sometimes having to lose a 20% surcharge but better than skipping them

[lutonlagerlout]

I am with RX on this
it wont come in handy
get rid,or better get a credit note
LLL

[Dave_L]

Get rid or bung them through the crusher

[mickg]

I concur as time goes by the batch will vary in colour anyway and when you get a job with the same product it can look totally different to what you have stored thinking it will be used when in reality it won't

[London Stone Paving]

I am pretty ruthless when it comes to that sort of thing. My old man on the other hand cant throw anything away, saves absolutely everything. You end up moving things around ten times over before you get round to using them on a job. Credit note or in the skip for me

[dig dug dan]

I save most things. Left over slabs, unless its something I lay a lot of, I leave with the customer. Bricks I keep, always handy for backing up walls. Always keep and use council slabs, concrete blocks etc.
Best result was my mate(who is too tight to rent a yard) went through a phase of using a particular tumbled block on hiw driveway jobs, and he always gave me the left overs. After a couple of years, I was asked to block pave a path. I showed the customer a sample, he liked them, and I had enough in stock to supply, for which he paid full price!
but thats not the best one.
the same mate, who will send me a bill for reading his christmas card, installed a garage side door and I charged him ,£20 to get rid of the bricks. I cleaned them up, stacked them, then a few months later sold them to him for one of his jobs!!!!

[DNgroundworks]

Skip! or take it back!

[GB_Groundworks]

We've been storing odds and sods of blocks slabs lintels etc for years

They've all just been chucked in as fill on a wet spot, only thing worth keeping are yorkstone and setts and steels

[lutonlagerlout]

I was in the biggest reclaim yard in the south east the other week DJ giles and asked what they will buy

good quality slates and reclaimed yorkstone is all they will buy

not interested in anything else

LLL

[sy76uk]

If it were a couple of m2 from a job it would get returned, left with customers on chucked.
I've got about 13 m2 of sandstone that's all the same colour,
7 m2 of savannahs and 8mm of driveline 50's that can't be returned as it's direct from marshalls.
All full packs when getting the stuff direct so have two swallow the excess grrr.

[dig dug dan]

Nothing worse than buying a full crate of sandstone and only needing half a dozen slabs from it. Local bm would not split a pack of sandstone, so I brought it elsewhere from someone who would.
making you buy full packs and then not being able to return the excess is lazy on behalf of the supplier and a vast waste in a day when we should be conserving resources, and recycling!



Edited By dig dug dan on 1440742206