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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.

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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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 ÂŁ1800. 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.
 
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 ÂŁ1800. 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"
 
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 ÂŁ1800. 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.

ÂŁÂŁÂŁ1800??? 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!
 
ÂŁÂŁÂŁ1800??? 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.
 

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