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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:10 pm
by Dave_L
Type in "drainage" into ebay's search system.....
I agree some of it comes from genuine sources, but some of it has to come from sites etc out through the back door, surely?
Ebay seems a good place to buy such items though, the savings can be pretty good, especially if it is situated near to you!
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:02 pm
by yourgardenworks.co.uk
Its the postage that kills it Dave, i'm still looking for a 1 stop shop for all me needs but they just dont exist on Ebay, at least with screwfix etc you can source most stuff cheaper than your local Builders merchants.
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:34 pm
by seanandruby
Dave_L wrote:Type in "drainage" into ebay's search system.....
I agree some of it comes from genuine sources, but some of it has to come from sites etc out through the back door, surely?
Ebay seems a good place to buy such items though, the savings can be pretty good, especially if it is situated near to you!
Dave when i was at heathrow, near the end of the job i just happened to go to the compound for a couple of bends. there was two 6 metre skips and the B Os where throwing all the left over drainage in to them. There was timesaver, ensign, hpde, bends couplings full lengths of pipe etc: I through a wobbly as i still needed a lot of the fittings etc; the lads said " the construction manager told us to do it." It all went and i had to order more stuff to finish off my drainage, even manhole bases, they aint cheap. it is all down to the logistics on the job and handing over sections of completed work. this happens on all our contracts. The point i am trying to make is that why cant a man try and make a few quid out of it, instead of the skip hire firms getting rich on my firms incompitence? i've seen whole metal staircases, tons of windows, hundreds of sheets of ply, (the list is endless) being skipped. Makes a grown man weep 
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:07 pm
by flowjoe
You get the odd job lot left over from an extension or garage build but the majority of it is from sites.
Ive never bought pipe work off e-bay because as sean says with postage it is dearer than we can get it from buying bulk.
I have had some cracking deals a specialist plant though, drain cameras, jetters etc....... you can usually tell if you are dealing with a trader or a novice by the way the advert is put together.
You still occasionally see a real bargain but they are few and far between, last week a cobra carbon line threader went for £30, they are £350/400 new.
I collect old trade catalogues/books (I know its sad), you pay a couple of quid for the book and £7.50 for postage, thieving barstewards ???
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:53 am
by seanandruby
flowjoe wrote:You still occasionally see a real bargain but they are few and far between, last week a cobra carbon line threader went for £30, they are £350/400 new.
I collect old trade catalogues/books (I know its sad), you pay a couple of quid for the book and £7.50 for postage, thieving barstewards ???
That could of been off my old job because that went in the skip to, thats no bulls***. a bloke took six tubes of grip fill out of the skip, got searched on way out and got the gooner over it, lost his redundency to. nothing wrong with collecting old mags joe, i collect any old relic that i dig up....copper pipes, lead pipes etc :laugh:
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:38 am
by Dave_L
That is just so wrong, to be sacked for taking something from the skip. It's bloody recycling, if nothing else!
I think I'd have done the same if I saw six fresh tubes in the skip.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:53 pm
by flowjoe
Them skip lads can make some money.
When the IRA had a go at Manchester the likes of Marks & Sparks skipped all their gear because of glass splinters etc........ not to be seen again and never used by the public !
You could not move around here for duvets, pillows, curtains, slippers, etc etc etc the pubs were full of the stuff 
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:08 pm
by Dave_L
That sort of stuff should have been destroyed before being carted off by the skip lads. We did a lot of flood restoration/clean-up work last year after the devastating floods in Gloucester. The amount of stock that Jewsons were skipping was incredible. Most of it could have been washed/cleaned and would have been fine - but it was all destroyed on site by excavator before being skipped. All I wanted was a few radiators! But no, all skipped.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:50 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i met a driver 1 day with a lorry full of tellys,he was taking them to a secure site to be smashed and buried,apparently once stock gets too old they would rather bury it than give it away
and our skip bloke has 4 Albanian lads in his yard,by the time they have sorted metal timber rags hardcore etc there is very little left for him to skip,great grafters but a little short on conversation :;):
and dave ,if half the stuff on ebay is not nicked or faked then i am a banana
LLL
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:59 am
by Dave_L
I'd vouch for what you are saying there LLL, spare car parts from dealerships that have 'expired' get skipped too. Seems a waste but shelf space is valuable if the part hasn't moved in xx months.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:56 am
by James.Q
at the end of a job a couple of years ago there was enough gear to build another house. i was instructed by the site manager to skip the lot. i said why not send it all to the next job being housing assosiation there all the same .His reply was if i do that i would have to explain why i had over orderd in the first place and get a arse kicking.
ps still got a few yard gullys left :p
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:15 pm
by Dave_L
Bloody site politics again! Ridiculous.