DIY waste is what is left after work on your own home: the old doors, boards, tiles, rubble and carpet that come out when a room is changed.
What is DIY waste?
DIY waste is the waste from building and improvement work you do on your own home, such as rubble, bricks, plasterboard, tiles, timber, old doors, kitchen units and bathroom suites. Councils treat it differently from household rubbish. Complete Waste Management collects it from the house or the drive and loads it for you.
What counts
Anything that comes out when part of the house is changed. Broken up concrete, bricks and rubble, plasterboard off a wall or a ceiling, wall and floor tiles, old doors and frames, skirting and floorboards, a kitchen or a bathroom suite, carpet and underlay, and the bags of dust and offcuts that build up while the work goes on. It counts whether you did the work yourself or a builder did it for you, as long as it came from your own home. The pile in the photograph is a typical one: a run of old doors and cupboard fronts, boards and timber, a rolled up carpet and a row of filled bags, all from one house with the scaffolding still up. None of it would go in a wheelie bin, and most of it is too heavy or too awkward for the boot of a car, which is why it tends to sit on the drive for longer than anyone planned. Leaving it there is where the trouble starts, because a pile like this draws more rubbish to it, and it is in the way of the work that is still to be done.
Why it is kept apart
Household bins and the household rubbish collection are for the everyday rubbish of a home, not for the materials of the building itself.
Plasterboard is kept separate from the rest of the load, rubble and bricks can usually be crushed and used again, and clean timber can be recycled, so the more it is sorted as it comes out, the less of it ends up buried.
Council tips have their own rules for DIY waste, often with limits on how much you can bring and what kind, so check your own council before you load the car.
Who can take it
Whoever takes it away must be a registered waste carrier, and it is on you to check. Ask for the registration number, check it on the government's public register of waste carriers, and keep the receipt.
We are a licensed waste carrier. We load it from wherever it is, the drive, the garden or a room inside, and what can be recycled is sorted out of it.
Getting a price
Send a photo on WhatsApp to 07523 280964 of the pile as it is now, and the price comes back in writing before anything is booked. Nothing is paid until the job is done. What we take is on our builders' waste removal page.
