earth disposal

Fayre

New build ongoing and about to start the final groundswork (soakways, drains, septic tank, horizontal collector for geothermal, site levelling etc) and will have a fairly large quantity of earth to dispose of. I have tried local farmers etc and no joy. What are the options for this and is it costly?

Metric Tensor

Find someone who needs to "fill" a low lying site - i.e. someone building a house in hole!

Angry bird

Sounds like you have all you need for your own motorcross hill track or you could create your own site boundaries with it, plant hedge and trees on top of the earthen mound boundaries.

mcneil

Fayre wrote: »

New build ongoing and about to start the final groundswork (soakways, drains, septic tank, horizontal collector for geothermal, site levelling etc) and will have a fairly large quantity of earth to dispose of. I have tried local farmers etc and no joy. What are the options for this and is it costly?

Where in the country are you. I know someone who needs fill and has a permit to fill their land

blast06

New build ongoing and about to start the final groundswork (soakways, drains, septic tank, horizontal collector for geothermal, site levelling etc) and will have a fairly large quantity of earth to dispose of. I have tried local farmers etc and no joy. What are the options for this and is it costly?

What is "earth" .... i.e.: subsoil, topsoil, gravel, rubble, ??
If topsoil then obviously should be advertising it and selling it!
I'm guessing its rubble... in which case where is your nearest quarry ? .... most quarrys have big holes which they would have no issue taking fill for. Call to the quarry and negotiate a haulage cost in cash per load (although of course you would need a machine on site)

Tefral

All construction waste legally has to be dumped in a licensed fill. To dump it legally including haulage the going rate is €22 a cube. If your talking about getting rid of massive quants like 500+ cubes the rate would come down to around €16/m3

blast06

All construction waste legally has to be dumped in a licensed fill. To dump it legally including haulage the going rate is €22 a cube. If your talking about getting rid of massive quants like 500+ cubes the rate would come down to around €16/m3

Hmmm .... I actually had closer to 5000+ cubes (yes, 5000 .... approx. 350 lorry loads). I guess my method of disposal may not have been fully legal then !! ... although ~70% of it was gravel.

Tefral

blast06 wrote: »

Hmmm .... I actually had closer to 5000+ cubes (yes, 5000 .... approx. 350 lorry loads). I guess my method of disposal may not have been fully legal then !! ... although ~70% of it was gravel.

Wow thats alot, are you digging into the side of a hill or something? you might get it down to 14 euro a cube then with that much.

Where are you based?

blast06

Tefral wrote: »

Wow thats alot, are you digging into the side of a hill or something? you might get it down to 14 euro a cube then with that much.

Where are you based?

Sorry, wasn't clear. I was building about 3 years ago ... took 1-2 metres off a .7 acre site.
Approx 70% of it was gravel and had a quarry about 1 mile away ... quarry was happy to take the gravel and supply machine (it only had to be graded to be ready to be shipped again). As a sort of quid-pro-quo they mostly took the rest of the rubble, subsoil, front ditch clearance as well ... cost me about a grand all in.

My point though is that there may be 'opportunities' available to the OP if creative enough and depending on the nature of the "earth"!!

gctest50

Might be handy yet :

Fayre

I'm not allowed to quote people's posts for some reason?

McNeil - I have sent you a PM

Tefral - thanks for the info, that's a lot cheaper than I thought it would be. Is a cube a tonne ?

blast06 - it would probably be a mixture of topsoil and subsoil but ungraded so could have stones in it. There's also some actual stone from the demolition of an old farmhouse that was on the site (hundreds of years old so just built from stones and mortar)

No gravel that I'm aware of. So mostly topsoil and subsoil. Would it be on the likes of Adverts, Done deal etc that one would advertise this for sale?

Stephenc66

Op I hope I'm not stating the obvious here but you have retained enough top soil for your own landscaping ?

Fayre

Yes. The groundswork contractor said we'll have quite a bit that needs getting rid of. I told him I'd take care of it as thought we had space on the farm of a relation but actually they dont' have any space so will have to get rid of it ourselves

delfagio

I am in the same boat as the OP.

I have approx 300tonne of topsoil heaped at rear of house last 2.5years from our build. And about 50-100tonne of subsoil.

Need to shift, would it be worth advertising somewhere??

blast06

Fayre wrote: »

Yes. The groundswork contractor said we'll have quite a bit that needs getting rid of. I told him I'd take care of it as thought we had space on the farm of a relation but actually they dont' have any space so will have to get rid of it ourselves

Always better to be "looking at it than looking for it" when it comes to topsoil.
i.e.: don't give any away until your garden is landscaped. There is always more used/needed that you would expect

BarneyMc

delfagio wrote: »

I am in the same boat as the OP.

I have approx 300tonne of topsoil heaped at rear of house last 2.5years from our build. And about 50-100tonne of subsoil.

Need to shift, would it be worth advertising somewhere??

The topsoil is valuable. Find out the going rate in your area and advertise. transport is a major cost so this needs to be factored in depending on what way you want to distribute it.

murphaph

BarneyMc wrote: »

The topsoil is valuable

Interesting. Where we built near Berlin the topsoil was worthless as it's so plentiful (whole area has about 1 metre depth of topsoil). The sand under the topsoil was what most people wanted (for replacing the removed topsoil under houses, driveways, garages etc. In German this is called a "ground swap". We didn't need one for the house as we had to go down deeper than that for the basement anyway but all our neighbours had to remove and back fill a good amount of material before starting their houses. I would have thought this is a regional thing.

I would agree though that it's better to be looking at the topsoil than looking for it...we got rid of ours too hastily and could do with some now. A friend is building around the corner and has no cellar so he has tonnes of topsoil.....but he also has Japanese Knotweed on his site so I must treat the soil as contaminated and won't touch it.

nice_guy80

I know somewhere in the midlands that might take some of that, if there's no construction rubble in it