Topic: CHEAPSKATE

[tonybloke]

Everyone must have a scaffolding firm nearby, the old planks make good beds.
my missus and kids refuse to sleep in them! ;D ;D ;D ;)

[betula]

A lot of the firms will not let you have them now because of the health and safety implications ;D

[PurpleHeather]

A lot of the firms will not let you have them now because of the health and safety implications ;D

Positive responses only please, exactly who are the firms who have refused to let YOU have them on these grounds?

[PurpleHeather]

Everyone must have a scaffolding firm nearby, the old planks make good beds.
my missus and kids refuse to sleep in them! ;D ;D ;D ;)

Quite right too. They are good enough for you though.Sleepwell

[tonybloke]

some offshore scaffolding companies have to have a destruction certificate for their old boards, CAPE is the name of one in our town that does this, something about single use boards and offshore blasting/coating?

[betula]

I have not tried personally for scaffold boards as I do not use them.Consider  why these boards are no longer used .Because they have a fault.Obviously people need sound boards who are working at height.
If you go and buy a board off them they will presume you will be using them for scaffolding and the company who supplied them could be held responsible for accidents.I have heard that some may supply them if you sign a disclaimer but I do not know if this is true.Do not mean to sound negative.I am quite a positive person really. ;D

[PurpleHeather]

some offshore scaffolding companies have to have a destruction certificate for their old boards, CAPE is the name of one in our town that does this, something about single use boards and offshore blasting/coating?

Thanks for that link, I have contacted them so that we can recycle the boards for growing beds.

They do hire out scaffolding and it is important that they dispose of cracked, broken and damaged boards responsibly.

Now that we have clearly established that damaged scaffolding planks should not to be reused as scaffolding planks, (which most sensible people already knew), we want them for beds (which are on the ground). perhaps we can move on?

[betula]

Sorry,did not know scaffolding boards meant so much to you :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

We had a massive lorryload delivered to the site last week, they were all gone in no time. Raised beds have clearly become popular!

[Amazin]

Purpleheather, is this an exam question?

 ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

No, that would be something on the lines of 'Why might a company refuse to supply used scaffolding boards to an allotment site? Give reasons, showing that you have considered more than one point of view.'

[betula]

0 out of ten for me Mr Brenchley :)

[Amazin]

Sir! Sir! I know, sir!

 ;D ;D ;D

[PurpleHeather]

GREAT RESULT

Earlier on today when going shoppin we saw in some one's front garden a sign about new driveways with a phone number (it was probably for future customers) but I could see they were clearing things we could use on the allotments.
I phoned the guy (free phone calls after 6pm with BT)
Asked him what he did with soil, paving slabs and those old fashioned brick/cobbled drive bits.

He told me he charged the buyer of the new driveway for skips.

Told him to drop off at our allotment address.



Just had a delivery of the most wonderful top soil and some paving slabs.

[Hyacinth]

.....but did you also nab the sign?

[asbean]

Back to the scaffold boards - I collected mine from Speedy Hire, they had lots of old ones, damaged, etc, behind their depot. They let me help myself to the ones they couldn't use and I had to load them myself onto the car, take them home,clean off the slugs and muck and then cut to size. It took a couple of years, but I got there in the end.  No joy from scaffold companies, though.

I did try HSS as well, and they tried to persuade me that for H&S reasons I couldn't have any, even after I explained why I wanted them, the excuse was that someone might get onto the allotment (which is locked), dismantle my raised beds and use the boards on a scaffold. Then if there was an accident they would be liable because they gave the boards to me.

Pigs might fly  ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

[betula]

Oh ,so glad I did not imagine it all ;D

[tonybloke]

 ;D ;D ;D

[GrannieAnnie]

Reused dryer sheets keep soil from draining out of pot holes.

[GrannieAnnie]

Chicken bones. Dried after I finish baking something as the oven cools down then pushed deep in the soil around roses or anywhere bone meal is needed.  I'm just trying this and am hoping no foxes become too interested. ::)