Soil removal costs

[peteypops]

I'm blocking out our build budget and am really struggling to get even vaguely consistent information on some subjects. Can anyone give me an rough estimate of how much per cubic meter it costs to remove normal uncontaminated clay soil from site. We are in the middle of the countryside in Caithness if that helps.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

[Bitpipe]

It depends if it's going into landfill (expensive) or a friendly farmer is taking it (free).

 

We were quoted £34/m3 for excavation and disposal.

 

 

[joe90]

I paid £900 to get rid of the clay from my foundations, 4 grab  lorry loads ?, no one wants clay.

[nod]

We spent £9000 getting rid of 750 tons Four years ago 

I’m hoping to spend a bit less this time 

There’s a local farmer that says he will take a full load for £50 a time 

[peteypops]

Thanks all, I never imagined getting rid of soil would be such a complex item.....

[Big Jimbo]

Don't know about you Scotties, but down south all the muck away lorries are loaded by weight not volume. The lorry goes BEEp BEEP when the weight is reached. So getting rid of dry spoil in the summer is much cheaper than wet spoil in the winter.  £350 + vat where i am for a load.

[Conor]

I paid £130 per 15t load plus £35/hr for loading. That was mates rates.

[Big Jimbo]

3 minutes ago, Conor said:

I paid £130 per 15t load plus £35/hr for loading. That was mates rates.

You lucky git Conor.

[Conor]

1 minute ago, Big Jimbo said:

You lucky git Conor.

Still cost me £5k tho!!

[Big Jimbo]

Just now, Conor said:

Still cost me £5k tho!!

I don't bloody care Conor. That was still cheap as chips you git.

[Happy Valley]

Am currently paying £120 to £140 per trailer load behind a tractor and £250 a day for the digger driver. We have had to move a lot of soil and stone due to being a sloping site and probably over 30 loads in all. 

[SimonD]

A few weeks ago it was £240 + VAT for grab up to 18t for us - Bristol/North East Somerset area.

[EquiumDuo]

Hi,

 

I'm paying £22k for 1500 tons of removal from the center of town to a quarry. The site as it is doesnt allow the biggest lorries, so could be upwards fo 90x trips.

 

Contractor reccons it will take him 2-3 long days to get it done.

We are a site on a slope diggin into the hill.

 

Edit: OUr soil composition is a sort of shale/clay mix.

Edited May 16, 2021 by EquiumDuo

[Moonshine]

I am about to pay £207 ex VAT per 20T truck, going to need 25-30 of them.

[SuperJohnG]

Suppose I should feel blessed I have 4 acres to hide soil. I have masses of top and subsoil on site but we have loads of space which we will end up using it to backfill around the house and level and landscape. 

 

I did have a guy uo the road (were rural) swing by and say if I needed to get rid of a it all I could dump over his field for free. 

 

I find it crazy much away costs so much. 

[Barryscotland]

On 13/05/2021 at 15:19, peteypops said:

I'm blocking out our build budget and am really struggling to get even vaguely consistent information on some subjects. Can anyone give me an rough estimate of how much per cubic meter it costs to remove normal uncontaminated clay soil from site. We are in the middle of the countryside in Caithness if that helps.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

 

Go and visit all your local farmers. 

[EquiumDuo]

Thats not always possible, we had this chat too and had some potential candidates. BUT the haulers (who are independent contractors) wont haul from the center of town because if they get stopped (which happens around here) they dont have the right paperwork they get done. So all our stuff has to go to a quarry who can give us the right paperwork for disposal.

[JohnMo]

Didn't realise it cost so much, I should have gone round building sites and taken it away for free, as we have just imported 750T, which we had to pay for.

[Pocster]

Aggregate recycler is what I used .

8 years ago . 1100 tons of Rock and soil . Which left a big hole as I wanted . So to truck away and excavate was 17k