Recycling Costs

When we take items from your property it becomes our business waste so we can only use commercial recycling centers to recycle these items charged by weight, around 25% of the price a customer pays for clearance are recycling charges.

Vehicle Costs

As with any business there are a lot of costs involved in running our business legally, vehicles are one of the larger costs, to buy and run one of our 7.2 Ton HGV vehicles cost us around £80 per day, including purchase, tax, fuel and licensing costs, etc.

Crew Costs

To clear a 3 bedroom semi-detached property we would send 3 or 4 experienced personnel and 1 or 2 vehicles equipped with suitable tools and equipment, around 25% of the price a customer pays are staff wages and other related staff costs.

Admin Costs

Then there are telephone, website, and advertising costs along with office and yard rent, etc along with other related licenses and paperwork, we charge a fixed price for vehicles and admin, around 25% of the price a customer pays are admin & vehicle costs.

Please Note

We are a clearance company, not a second-hand dealer we don't just buy furniture from a property, we earn a living by providing the labor and transportation of everything in your property for re-use or recycling and not from the sale of its contents.

Company Profit

The aim of any business is to make a profit, we calculate this by adding the recycling costs, wages, and admin costs together and adding 25% to the total, most of which is reinvested back into the business, newer vehicles better equipment, etc.

Separation

When we clear a property we separate the items into their different recycling categories, items that can be reused, items that can be recycled i.e paper, cardboard, clothing, bedding, scrap metal, wood, etc, and then items that need to be disposed of.

Recycling

By doing this we fulfill our duty to apply the waste hierarchy as required by the waste regulations, we then load the items on our vehicles, once we leave your property we then travel to various commercial recycling centers to recycle them.

Transportation

But unlike the council recycling centers where you have different sections for different types of recycling all in the same place, commercial recycling centers are normally specific to one type of recycling and located miles apart.

Our Competitors

Please be aware that most clearance companies quote by using a full or part load method, this method classes all waste as general waste which is more expensive to recycle.

This results in much higher charges, please compare the size of our vehicles to other companies before excerpting an estimate using a full or part load calculation.

Vehicle Size

Also this method does not take into consideration the size of vehicles they use from old Tesco delivery vans to caged tippers the range of vehicles used can vary quite considerably.

If another company estimates a clearance as 1 load and then it turns out to be 2 you will end up paying double the estimated price, you could get caught out with this method.

Our Vehicles

Not all vehicles carry the same amount of cargo, our vehicles are 7.2 tonne HGV's with a 6 Meter box we can carry more volume than 4 large builders skips on just one of our vehicles.

This is why we prefer to view the property first so we can take into consideration any resale value, transportation, recycling, and labor costs before we supply a quotation.