House renovation waste

macarthy

Hi,

I'm doing a house renovation and I need to get rid of a load of stuff.

Concrete: bricks, concrete etc..

Wood waste: lumber, doors and old kitchen units

Metal: 2 old rusting oil tanks, a boiler and 5 radiators

Garden Waste : tree stumps , grass and branches trees

Old Bathroom stuff: stone cast resin (or ceramic??) or acrylic/plastic.

Old Tiles: lovely 70s colours, someone told me someone takes
tiles for recycling in Dublin, for Mosaics I think.

I would love if a could get someone to collect this stuff (especially the metal stuff).

ANY pointers would be great, thanks ~J

Snowball

where abouts r u?

Dub? Country? Close to a town or city? Dense population or sparse? and so on...

Typedef

Concrete: bricks, concrete etc..

Hmm, as far as I am aware the Corporation does not provide a method to recycle bricks, so, your best bet is to reuse them or to find a friend who would like to use them again, say in decorating a real fireplace.
If the bricks are red-brick and reasonably intact, I would say said bricks would be quite easy to palm off to your local DYI guy.

Wood waste: lumber, doors and old kitchen units

Hmm again, not too sure, however if you go to the bother of seperating your waste, I would think that the likes of theatres ( who use wood for sets) and hire-alls would be the best place to look to pass wood along to or to ask where to safely dispose of wood and the like.

Metal: 2 old rusting oil tanks, a boiler and 5 radiators

The metal is easy to recycle.
http://www.enfo.ie/leaflets/as26.htm

Garden Waste : tree stumps , grass and branches trees

This kind of thing is biodegradeable, so if you have a section of land that can be used up for a few years, nature will literally take care of this problem for you. If you chop up the wood small enough (with a tree shredder) the chips can be used for any number of things.

Old Bathroom stuff: stone cast resin (or ceramic??) or acrylic/plastic.

Antique shops for the bathroom stuff I'd say.

Old Tiles: lovely 70s colours, someone told me someone takes
tiles for recycling in Dublin, for Mosaics I think.

Here is a great site though The waste directory of Ireland

macarthy

Opps Harolds X, Dublin

Victor

First off, think "Do I really need to demolish this, do I really need to throw this out?"

Originally posted by macarthy
Concrete: bricks, concrete etc.. Wood waste: lumber, doors and old kitchen units

These tend to be skipped, keep them as separate as possible. Skip companies are meant to have recycling processes in place. Check that they do. Alternatively bricks and concrete can be used as hardcore under floors (break them up and make sure they are treated for timber rot).

Originally posted by macarthy
Metal: 2 old rusting oil tanks, a boiler and 5 radiators

There are people who specialise in removal of these, so as to avoid oil leaks.

Originally posted by macarthy
Garden Waste : tree stumps , grass and branches trees

Shred them and add them back into the soil.

Bathroom stuff can be sold as architectural salvage if it has some merit (especially per-1940 stuff).

Typedef

I forgot to mention. I noticed a metal recycling place in Ranelagh, called McGovern metal recycling.

This is probably a handy location for you to bring your heaters etc, to, since Ranelagh is reasonably close to Harold's cross.

Typedef.

Victor

Originally posted by Typedef
I forgot to mention. I noticed a metal recycling place in Ranelagh, called McGovern metal recycling.

I **think** they were closed down for operating / causing nuisance in a residential neighbourhood. There might be a place on Cork St.