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Thats the best part. Plus figuring out how to use what you have. I am always recycling. I dont do construction but I do Dumpster dive.
Places I have gotten free stuf:
Garage doors. Garage door replacement companies often times here will even deliver the old door to you to save dump fees. 99 percent of a garage door is plywood. Some good latch hardware as well as those long tensioning bolts to stiffen the base. I use them whole to make walls. great horse shelters... For horses replace the nails with screws though.
Sheet metal manufacturing companies. They get their sheet metal on pallets that are 4 foot by 10 feet long. Some have two 4 x 4 x 10s some have 3. The slats are very soft and almost un-salvageable but the 4 x 4 s are very useful. Not pressure treated but There are ways around that. And used as posts without concrete... Just get some more. good for anything like benches and above ground stuff too. Last place I went was getting ready to chop them up with a chainsaw so they would go into their dumpster. They happily loaded about six of them on the back of my truck. The smaller pallets go for bonfires around here....
Stone and tile companies get some of their product packaged in wooden boxes. One place I got a number of chunks of countertop that had been broken. Beautiful granite. Makes great landscaping stones with moss planted between. Not good for walking on.... too slippery but pretty to look at. even then youcould lay the shiny side down.
Above ground swimming pools with the rigid walls made of plastic.... I have used those as fencing... but I have three more that I am going to use as either roofing or coop walls. The plastic is UV stabilized though soft it can be screwed onto wood using a washer to backup the screw. Definitely waterproof.
Thats the best part. Plus figuring out how to use what you have. I am always recycling. I dont do construction but I do Dumpster dive.
Places I have gotten free stuf:
Garage doors. Garage door replacement companies often times here will even deliver the old door to you to save dump fees. 99 percent of a garage door is plywood. Some good latch hardware as well as those long tensioning bolts to stiffen the base. I use them whole to make walls. great horse shelters... For horses replace the nails with screws though.
Sheet metal manufacturing companies. They get their sheet metal on pallets that are 4 foot by 10 feet long. Some have two 4 x 4 x 10s some have 3. The slats are very soft and almost un-salvageable but the 4 x 4 s are very useful. Not pressure treated but There are ways around that. And used as posts without concrete... Just get some more. good for anything like benches and above ground stuff too. Last place I went was getting ready to chop them up with a chainsaw so they would go into their dumpster. They happily loaded about six of them on the back of my truck. The smaller pallets go for bonfires around here....
Stone and tile companies get some of their product packaged in wooden boxes. One place I got a number of chunks of countertop that had been broken. Beautiful granite. Makes great landscaping stones with moss planted between. Not good for walking on.... too slippery but pretty to look at. even then youcould lay the shiny side down.
Above ground swimming pools with the rigid walls made of plastic.... I have used those as fencing... but I have three more that I am going to use as either roofing or coop walls. The plastic is UV stabilized though soft it can be screwed onto wood using a washer to backup the screw. Definitely waterproof.
