Tradespeople removing rubbish

But OP doesn't have a car...

If he charges £60 for the job when the tip charges him £100 for commercial license then you can look forward to seeing your tiles in a ditch next to your local park or a train station.

Probably best to just do it yourself then. That's a car load at most.

I got left in the lurch by a contractor I had to fire, a whole seven car loads worth. Got it moved myself, I was pregnant so my neighbour helped me load and the staff at the council tip helped me unload.

If you're a resident it should be free.

This seems fairly normal around me. It’s cheaper than a skip and makes less mess of the driveway/ does not need a license to sit in the road.

DH & I have, in the past, hired a van privately and taken rubbish to the skip ourselves, when doing renovations, and that’s been cheaper, but clearly not an option for you at the minute.

You'll probably see photos of your tiles on FB next week when they've been fly tipped

If youre going for the cheaper route check he's registered for disposal

Where is he taking it to?

If he fly tips it down a quiet shady lane and you are in anyway linked to it (address on packaging for example) you could potentially get a big fine.

A local waste company can collect loads of waste from loads of different people and dispose of it at once, though.

A "one man band" can't do that. He'll need to charge for his time, wear and tear on his vehicle and the cost to dispose of the waste. He also won't have the space to store loads of waste at once, so will have to do a trip per customer, or per job.

As long as the person you use is licensed, it doesn't really matter though.

Flytipping of waste by unlicensed man and van outfits which undercut legit firms is a big and growing problem.

Bet they'll insist on cash payment too.

This is very annoying when they don't give you a quote including the cost of removal of rubbish - it sounds a bit like when they never mention anything about the quote excluding VAT, when clearly working for a domestic customer, and then just add it on at the end.

I don't see why they can't say the job will cost £X and then it's an additional £Y if you want me to dispose of the rubbish (as paid-for trade waste), or you can take it to the tip yourself if you prefer.

Do you have any friends or family members with a car who could take it to the tip for you? You could offer them £20 for their trouble - assuming it fits into clean bin/rubble bags and won't risk damaging or dirtying their car?

If you do go for a man with a van, ask to see his waste disposal licence. If he doesn't have one, he's probably planning to sling it over a hedge into a farmer's field - scum.

That's about right when you factor in the cost of disposal for a van load plus his time

£150 is the going rate. For £60 if he has a van, he will simply dump in the woods and if any of the packaging or waste has your details on it, expect a big fine from council. Happened to us 😭 Even when I have hired a van and disposed waste as a DIYer, i have had to show rental agreement proof and still have to go on van scales before they let me dump for free. If he has a big car and doing it that way, then maybe thats how he can do it so cheaply. But if he owns a van, tips will charge commercial rates.

But it's the convenience as well. He can charge whatever he wants, doesn't mean it would cost him that or it's worth that price, but that's his price to do it, take it or leave it

Yes, I'd be worried about where he may dispose of this waste.

Does he have a waste carrier license? https://www.gov.uk/register-renew-waste-carrier-broker-dealer-england

without it you are responsible for making sure that waste ends up in a legitimate waste centre and isn’t just flytipped.

you need to have a receipt that shows that license number .

www.keepbritaintidy.org/faqs/advice/fly-tipping-and-law

I deal with commercial waste a lot through work; I'd say that £150 is pretty cheap.

Feel free to go with the man with a van. Be aware that if he flytips your waste and it has anything identifying you in it (packaging, for example) you can be prosecuted.

You have to be careful of overly cheap rubbish removal quotes, often they just fly tip.

This is normal. We had plastering done recently, where the guy hacked off all the old plaster leaving tons of rubbish. In his quote he said to have the rubbish taken away it’s £300 extra, or I’ll leave it in heavy duty bags and you take it to the tip yourself. We did four tip runs and saved the £300. It’s normal.

Is the "man and van" licensed to dispose of waste? Many of them aren't.

It costs a lot to remove the rubbish, commercial waste isn’t free, £150 for a small amount sounds reasonable.

Some people are happy to remove the waste themselves, given home owners can legitimately load up the boot of their car and take it to the dump.

but others think I might scratch the car, i might need to hoover the boot after, i might find the bags too heavy etc . And opt to get the tradesperson to do it .

when you got him to quote for the work you probably should have got clarity about all of this.

scratch it up to lesson learnt.

It can cost over £100 a go to dispose of trade waste. It's not cheap.

If you wouldn't have minded him including it in the original quote, surely it shouldn't be an issue to pay it now?

There is a charge for depositing stuff in a legitimate commercial waste centre. There is also the cost of bagging it up, moving it to his vehicle, driving to the waste centre, handling the bags at the waste centre- how much do you think this waste will weigh? how much time do you think it will take to move the waste from
your house to the vehicle? To drive there? To empty the vehicle?
he also has to sweep the vehicle out after, to add fuel, pay for his commercial licenses.
waste can only be moved by a licensed waste removal person- to reduce fly tipping- What would you want to paid to do this for a stranger?