is it just me?

telectrix · Feb 14, 2016

as title. do you all scrap your offcuts or save them for that small job. e.g. extra socket 2m run, or scrap it alla nd just use a new drum.

Octopus · Feb 14, 2016

Well... in my store I have a bucket for T&E and another for singles - the scrap man I use pays more for singles. I do keep loads of off cuts - then forget I have them! I'm going to be first fixing our extension very soon, so time to go through the off cuts and rolls on the shelf and use them up!

Andy78 · Feb 14, 2016

Yep, any bit that is worth saving gets saved. But my frugality usually manifests itself in not having any scrap bits due to tight measuring, excluding drum ends of course.

Don't even bother with saving scrap at today's prices.

Deleted member 9648 · Feb 14, 2016

SWA is the worst....got loads of coils/offcuts in various sizes but am not organised enough to label each coil length before chucking it in the store. So a job comes in needing 15m and because all the offcuts are of uncertain length I just get 15m from the wholesalers so I know it's right....was probably an offcut in the store for the job all along.

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

I get the apprentice to bag up all the off cuts and sling then in the van and store the bags up in the yard. Cashed them in just before Xmas and got just shy of £1800. One of the sites im doing at the mo is coming to an end so ripped all the SWA site temps out recently rolled them all up, labeled them all with how many meters. Last week I used them all on another site temp job.....result as been paid for the same bit of cable twice lol.

Octopus · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
I get the apprentice to bag up all the off cuts and sling then in the van and store the bags up in the yard. Cashed them in just before Xmas and got just shy of £1800. One of the sites im doing at the mo is coming to an end so ripped all the SWA site temps out recently rolled them all up, labeled them all with how many meters. Last week I used them all on another site temp job.....result as been paid for the same bit of cable twice lol.

As the saying goes "look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves"

amlu · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
I get the apprentice to bag up all the off cuts and sling then in the van and store the bags up in the yard. Cashed them in just before Xmas and got just shy of £1800. One of the sites im doing at the mo is coming to an end so ripped all the SWA site temps out recently rolled them all up, labeled them all with how many meters. Last week I used them all on another site temp job.....result as been paid for the same bit of cable twice lol.

£££1800??? Wow you must be doing big big jobs. I took 2 full rubble sacks full of t+e scrapped on a rewire, got 20 quid!

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

amlu said:
£££1800??? Wow you must be doing big big jobs. I took 2 full rubble sacks full of t+e scrapped on a rewire, got 20 quid!

A few biggish jobs last year. 13 flats, 19 flats and 3 houses, 11 houses, 3 story office block and a two story extension on a school. The 19 flats and 3 houses are on a big site that's rolling on for the next few years in total will be 72 flats and 17 houses.

telectrix · Feb 14, 2016

if they were my jobs with £1800 of scrap cables left over, i'd be asking some serious questions.

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

telectrix said:
if they were my jobs with £1800 of scrap cables left over, i'd be asking some serious questions.

There is 6 of us so that's £300 worth of scrap over the year per person. I don't think that's the end of the world lol.

telectrix · Feb 14, 2016

Bloody well is. £300 scrap equates to something like £5000 of wasted materials.

Geordie Spark · Feb 14, 2016

I used to keep offcuts of cable & copper pipe to use up on the next job but it was always too short so had to cut into new lengths anyway.

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

telectrix said:
Bloody well is. £300 scrap equates to something like £5000 of wasted materials.

About £5500 worth of cable equates to about £1800 of scrap.

telectrix · Feb 14, 2016

Leesparkykent said:
About £5500 worth of cable equates to about £1800 of scrap.

it's not the cable value. it's what you do with it that makes it worth it.

Leesparkykent · Feb 14, 2016

telectrix said:
it's not the cable value. it's what you do with it that makes it worth it.

True and even working the maths out at that its still a lot so time to have a word I think lol.

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