The dump shop

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Elcie

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The dump shop
« on: August 24, 2009, 13:42 »
Took some carpet that the previous plot holder had left on my new plot to the dump yesterday.  Have seen signs for their shop but have never looked before.  I spotted a compost bin so thought I would go and find out how much.  It was £5 and is one of the large big black daleks so I had it.  Didn't have time to look around any more but did spot a rabbit hutch for £10 which I might pop back for to have in my new chicken run for broodies or something for them to jump up on.

I am going to get into the habbit of popping along there once a week I think as it should be quite handy for allotment stuff.

The next thing I need is some paving slabs so fingers crossed.

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2009, 15:03 »
You can get some good stuff at the tip, shredder £5 Jet wash £3 wire netting , proper old garden tools that don`t bend when you use them. Its just a matter of getting there at the right moment. :)

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2009, 15:11 »
oh blimey,keep forgetting about there.
elcie do you go bradwell or newport pagnell.
i got all my demi-johns from newport years ago.same as everywhere,got to know what to look for.
its nice to be nice

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2009, 20:56 »
Are these proper "tips" or those recycling places where everything is dumped in huge containers?

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Elcie

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2009, 21:15 »
These are proper tips which are run by the council (?) or official people.  The one I was at yesterday was at bleak hall I think?  Near Coffee Hall anyway.

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2009, 21:19 »
Lucky you with your dump having a shop selling good items.  Our local tip has loads of good stuff tucked away at the side or round the back of the bins, but you never ever see that they are for sale.  I think the blokes who work there sell them and keep the profits.

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2009, 21:58 »
Last time I was up at the recycling centre (it's a huge one just outside Croydon) I drove by a huge warehouse which was just full of bikes and other stuff.

They don't have a shop though.

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poppie

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2009, 07:49 »
dont be backwards in coming forwards,just ask.whats the worst that can happen,they say no.

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8doubles

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2009, 08:15 »
Are these proper "tips" or those recycling places where everything is dumped in huge containers?

The one near me is a recycling centre with the skips, the sell able items are kept in a portacabin nearby. Always worth a look when dropping off the non-compostable garden waste.

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2009, 19:28 »
mine is great- Grunty Fen local authority tip- Witchford, Ely

 there are a few containers with bits and bobs, and then furniture and other stuff outside. You take something up to one of the tip folk (we have women working there too!), they usually say £2.

If you need some golf clubs, there are 30 sets there

I have had some absolute bargains


Pentax P30 with 22-88mm lens and flash unit- said how much, they asked for a tenner



1950's italian bertoia designer chair: £2.


5 demi johns, free,
8'x8' carpet, bagged it from the boot of the car before it even made it to the skip,- free
Glass side table, £2,
Compost dalek: £2
Bicycle basket- free
lightweight aluminum bicycle pannier rack
Suspension files


Some things I have fished out of the skips. I am terrible. I always come back with something!
"Do not sit supine in God's Waiting Room."

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Trillium

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2009, 02:03 »
You're all lucky your dumps do this. Ours forbid us to take anything out. Anything useful somehow ends up on the foreman's pickup truck. The rest is sold in bulk if possible as scrap for the township office to squander. The rest is either burned or buried.
However, I have brought home (quietly) a number of useful lengths of new building lumber. None particularly long, but my projects don't require much length.

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Elcie

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2009, 22:06 »
I picked up 4 large paving slabs and 20 bricks for £5 yesterday.  There is also a rabbit hutch I have my eye on for broody chickens but not sure it will fit in the KA! 

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2009, 23:17 »
mine is great- Grunty Fen local authority tip- Witchford, Ely

 there are a few containers with bits and bobs, and then furniture and other stuff outside. You take something up to one of the tip folk (we have women working there too!), they usually say £2.

If you need some golf clubs, there are 30 sets there

I have had some absolute bargains


Pentax P30 with 22-88mm lens and flash unit- said how much, they asked for a tenner



1950's italian bertoia designer chair: £2.


5 demi johns, free,
8'x8' carpet, bagged it from the boot of the car before it even made it to the skip,- free
Glass side table, £2,
Compost dalek: £2
Bicycle basket- free
lightweight aluminum bicycle pannier rack
Suspension files


Some things I have fished out of the skips. I am terrible. I always come back with something!


O my I'm on my way, that chair is stunning and my OH has just bought a camera like that on Ebay to use while his original one goes for a service.

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2009, 05:46 »
Really lurrrve that chair  :D
Staffies are softer than you think.

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Riala

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Re: The dump shop
« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2009, 07:59 »
Another thing I will miss out on due to lack of car! *shakes fist angrily*



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