A last, and with a fair wind, work proper should start on the house this Monday. I have been anxious to get on with it but in fairness we only completed 10 or so days ago and you cannot expect people to be hanging around waiting to start work, even in a recession.
So the first job is to clear the house of all of it's fittings. Kitchen, bathroom, cupboards, radiators, hot water tank, floor coverings (what there are), plaster on all of the downstairs walls, some ceilings, old grippers rods, electric sockets and light fittings, internal doors, one internal wall, some internal doors and so on. You name it and it will go. At the end of this the house really will be an empty shell of rooms and a staircase with all the poor quality plaster removed. The only thing staying that will eventually go is the windows.
The builder thinks it will take two or three days to clear the house, I think this may be a little ambitious but there again with nobody living there and nothing that you need to look after it may be possible. There will be a lot of rubbish to be cleared away so the next question to decide is how should this is best done.
The builder has already said "you better order a skip" which is the obvious answer but I have been looking at other services from companies that claim to take your rubbish (including rubble etc) away from you for a fee and this option is looking quite attractive.
A 6 yard skip which seems to be a pretty standard size is £194 including VAT to hire from one website I tried. I am sure it will be possible to shave a few pounds off this but it will do for the purposes of comparison. On top of that I would need to apply for a permit to put the skip on the road which round here is £50.00 (if I remember rightly from the last time we needed one). So, all in all, a skip will cost £244.00 which could end up being higher if 6 yards is not enough.
There are various companies offering a totally different service of basically coming to your house, assessing how much stuff you have, and then quoting you to take it away. One of them claims that 7.5 yards would cost £165.00 (incl VAT) but they will charge £70.00 per hour for labour after two hours. They also charge more for heavy loads like rubble etc but our load will be mixed so we should avoid this. There is another company who seem to charge £143.00 for 8 yards which is cheaper again but the website is less clear about extras.
The other advantage is that if you need more space than 7.5 yards it is not a problem, you just pay more. In addition, there is no danger of everybody else in the area dumping their old furniture into your skip! I can see why this service would not suit if you have nowhere to store you junk before collection but there is no reason why we cannot stack thinks up in the front room and let then take it from there.
This seems a no brainer to me. Cheaper, quicker and more flexible. I cannot think of any reason why I wouldn't want to use this type of service.
If anybody has experience of this I would love to hear about it.
So the first job is to clear the house of all of it's fittings. Kitchen, bathroom, cupboards, radiators, hot water tank, floor coverings (what there are), plaster on all of the downstairs walls, some ceilings, old grippers rods, electric sockets and light fittings, internal doors, one internal wall, some internal doors and so on. You name it and it will go. At the end of this the house really will be an empty shell of rooms and a staircase with all the poor quality plaster removed. The only thing staying that will eventually go is the windows.
The builder thinks it will take two or three days to clear the house, I think this may be a little ambitious but there again with nobody living there and nothing that you need to look after it may be possible. There will be a lot of rubbish to be cleared away so the next question to decide is how should this is best done.
The builder has already said "you better order a skip" which is the obvious answer but I have been looking at other services from companies that claim to take your rubbish (including rubble etc) away from you for a fee and this option is looking quite attractive.
A 6 yard skip which seems to be a pretty standard size is £194 including VAT to hire from one website I tried. I am sure it will be possible to shave a few pounds off this but it will do for the purposes of comparison. On top of that I would need to apply for a permit to put the skip on the road which round here is £50.00 (if I remember rightly from the last time we needed one). So, all in all, a skip will cost £244.00 which could end up being higher if 6 yards is not enough.
There are various companies offering a totally different service of basically coming to your house, assessing how much stuff you have, and then quoting you to take it away. One of them claims that 7.5 yards would cost £165.00 (incl VAT) but they will charge £70.00 per hour for labour after two hours. They also charge more for heavy loads like rubble etc but our load will be mixed so we should avoid this. There is another company who seem to charge £143.00 for 8 yards which is cheaper again but the website is less clear about extras.
The other advantage is that if you need more space than 7.5 yards it is not a problem, you just pay more. In addition, there is no danger of everybody else in the area dumping their old furniture into your skip! I can see why this service would not suit if you have nowhere to store you junk before collection but there is no reason why we cannot stack thinks up in the front room and let then take it from there.
This seems a no brainer to me. Cheaper, quicker and more flexible. I cannot think of any reason why I wouldn't want to use this type of service.
If anybody has experience of this I would love to hear about it.
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