[Ian_P]

Hi,
I am just starting to build some raised beds right at the very edge of the plot, where there is just grass currently. I plan to bury the sides down a lot to slow up the weedds from the next door plot which is a mess.

I have been given some heavyweight blue pallets which would m,ake ideal sides, but each time I move them the blue stuff (paint?) comes off on my hands.

Does anyone know if this blue stuff is safe to put into a growing area, or should I dismantle my current compost bids made out of lighter untreated pallets and use the blue ones there?

Thoughts please.

Thanks froma  demon user of old pallets. 

Thanks

Ian

[poppies]

Hi I read that blue pallets always belong to the same supplier - cant remember who  and it is illegal to take them, I dont know how much truth there is in this but perhaps thats why the paint comes off -   as a deterent.

[poppies]

Just googled it they belong to a company called chep and should have a white c in them

[Knight Family]

Sorry cannot help ref paint but did you know they have money on them, hence the blue paint.

[woodburner]

Safer, both legally and chemically, to find some plain ones. Often you can find some on an industrial estate, freecycle is worth a look at too, but my favourite source is a local builders' merchants. (That's where I get my cardboard from too. )

[Steve.P]

Yes its right, the pallets belong to a company called Chep. They are coloured blue to distinguish them from others. When a company delivers goods on these pallets the driver will receive a pallet control note to confirm that these pallets have been delivered. Chep is basically a pallet hire company But as these get damaged all the time i dont think they will miss a few. As for the paint or dye, company's use these to carry all manner of food stuffs so i wouldn't expect it to be toxic, more than likely the same as you would put on your shed or fence.

[Mr B]

Hi Ian_P
   Please do not think I am giving you a lecture but CHEP pallets are what alot of our industries use to deliver their goods to their customers on. They are hired by the sender and then de hired by them on to the account of the reciver. If you have been given them then they can only be stolen as they will alway remain the property of CHEP, a bit like the bread baskets you see every where. The chances that a CHEP inspector will visit your allotment may well be very slim but there again he may have the plot next to you. The blue paint is harmless as food stuffs are moved on the pallets but it dose stain clothes. It costs around £10 to hire one from CHEP and then a small charge per day untill it or another is returned. My company pay CHEP around £25,000 a year for hire charges and we closely monitor them in and out.
Mr B

[cornykev]

As the others have said Ian if they are chep pallets don't take a chance with them, they are on hire and belong to chep and I'd take them back and swop for others, good luck. 

[Ian_P]

 

Well Well, I have nicked pallets. To be sure I will go down in the morning and check for the C mark.

One thing is for sure I can't take them back. I got them from two different people on Freecycle, they had been left behind at their houses after building work. They certainly won't take them back.

This is a bit of a poser really. It might be best just to turn them into potash fertilizer and forget all about it, but that doesn't seem right.

Thoughts anyone?

Ian

[Ice]

Camouflage paint?

[Ian_P]

Oh double poo!

I googled Blue Pallets and the third hit got me straight back to this post!

Anyone for a bonfire party?

:-(

[Steve.P]

I say keep them Ian.

I'm a lorry driver and have used these pallets often. Some times with no control note being issued. I have also seen these pallets being taken to and collected from pallet sale companys.

[Ian_P]

Te He,
You are probably right, but just in case I have changed my picture for a while!

Don't tell!

 

[Ice]

This must be the crime of the century.

[Steve.P]

This must be the crime of the century.

I agree. You are hereby sentenced to 25 years hard labour