ᐅ Construction Waste During House Assembly – What Does It Involve? Should You Mix Your Own?

I would estimate about one container. There are plastic films and various plastic parts (e.g., spacers, etc.), then all kinds of wood (also used as transport protection, etc.). Then plastic cartridges from different sealing materials, film remnants from walls, cardboard, and so on. In summary: mainly plastics, wood, and possibly cardboard. I don’t see any construction debris here.

This is called mixed construction waste. The waste disposal service you trust least usually charges per ton, or in our case, a flat fee of 12€ if you stay under (I believe) 200 kg (440 lbs).

Just as a reference for our prefabricated house: the prefab builder filled one 10-cubic-meter (350-cubic-foot) container up to the completion of the screed. After that, I had a huge amount of yellow bags, a lot of bundled cardboard, and 3 trailer loads (about 1 ton (2,200 lbs)) of mixed construction waste from the remaining interior work. Since we did a lot ourselves, I didn’t keep a container on site. A single trip to the landfill regularly took me half a Saturday, mostly due to long queues of private drop-offs.

You can’t save that much because you’re constantly hauling waste (and still paying landfill fees). Get quotes from multiple providers for the container and choose the cheapest one. Forget about sorting everything in advance. Only the outer packaging from laminate/flooring/cabinets/sinks and similar items can be reasonably separated.

I also don’t think driving it yourself is a good idea.
What might be smart, however, is to have 2-3 containers delivered.
€800 is the price for a container with mixed construction waste, basically residual waste.
If you get one container for recyclables (plastic/metal), one for clean demolition debris (i.e., recyclable construction material), and one for the rest, it should be cheaper. They can pile the wood separately for you, which you might be able to transport yourself.
The cost per ton for residual waste is often over €100, while for recyclable construction material it’s around €10-20.
You will need space for 3 containers, though.
They need to separate the materials directly; sorting the stuff out of the container afterwards is almost impossible.

Thank you very much for your answers – so it’s better to order a container then 🙂 Thank you very much

apokolok schrieb:
I also don’t think it’s a good idea to transport the waste yourself.
What could be smart, however, is to have 2–3 containers delivered.
800€ is the price for one container with mixed construction waste, basically residual waste.
If you get one container for recyclables (plastic/metal), one for clean rubble (i.e., recyclable construction material), and one for the rest, it should be cheaper. They can pile up the wood for you, which you could possibly transport yourself.
Residual waste costs more than 100€ per ton, while recyclable construction material costs around 10–20€ per ton.
You’ll also need space for three containers.
They have to separate the waste right away; sorting it out of the container later is nearly impossible.

I don’t think the contractors will follow that.
But maybe they need to be taught first.

Well, this should be standard practice on all larger construction sites to avoid generating enormous costs. Alternatively, in a case like this, it could be agreed that they dispose of their own waste for an appropriate additional fee.