[drive surgeon]

hi guys, just wondered where you guys put your slop from cleaning block paving?and how do you go about it?  i take mine home and put it in my borders, my borders are 6 foot tall now!!

its a nightmare getting rid of it all, 

[Richy L]

First i let the water drain out of the pile a bit then I just bag it up and put it in my wheelie bin at home

[steve doyle]

Same,
 I also double bag it and leave it in customer bins (telling them) or tell them to put it in over a couple of weeks. Its harder now the weekly collections gone for me to get rid of it and i have also spotted my bin men having a look in one of my heavier bins!!!!

I ended up tipping some month ago, I often use the bags left from the sand and i tipped about 8, it cost me £30!

try my hardest now to leave it with customers!


steve

[BDCS]

Hello, I have tall buckets that have a small hole in the bottom and a row of holes near the top and just keep putting slop in - the water runs out then you just got sand. I got a yard on a farm and use it to fill the holes in the road !! If - IF you take the rules as they should be you have to be a licienced waste carrier to remove the customers waste but its them who get fined if you fly tip it. The licience down here is about £50

[drive surgeon]

cant you just take it the local tip and say its garden waste??

[steve doyle]

not in a sign written van 

would you want it in your car?

[drive surgeon]

i go the tip in my van dropping off house hold waste, i could tip it in then when dropping off other stuff, its only usually one bucket load>

[BDCS]

It all depends low legal you want to be and how strict they are at the tip but you should'nt really

[drive surgeon]

is it classed as your wast or the customers waste,  im doing a big job this week and i just disposed of the slop behind plants and trees there.   i suppose someone could complain but it does soil or borders no harm does it!!

i just wondered if you should say to the customer "where shall i put it its your waste!!"

[Roger Oakley]

If the job is big enough, add the extra cost of dumping at local tip to your quote/price. I try not to leave any waste at a clients but agree it is a pain.

[drive surgeon]

your right there rog!  have not got a wet n dry vac yet either so i was shovelling  slop for ages after cleaning,  what a pain!  trying to avoid it going down there drains too,  need to get that vac of yours fast!

[Roger Oakley]

If you do go for the Tech-Clean wet-n-dry vac you won't be dissapointed, it has been worth it's weight in gold to me anyway. Had a television station clean-up to do last friday (fake snow) on a drive way, quick wash then vac'ed up the fake snow, 3 hours work, over £100+ per hour, the vac saved me at least 1-2 hours of sweeping and bagging.

[drive surgeon]

well done rog, that sounds great mate, thanks for the good advice!

sounds like a great job you did, !  what is fake snow made of? did it not clog in the hose??

[Roger Oakley]

I really don't know what the fake snow was made of, sort of felt like rubber but disolved between your fingers, come water based stuff, would have easily brushed up, but they wanted it washed so washed it was.No it did not clog the hose.