Collection and landfill costs

A word to the home builder:

If the civil engineer is lucky and can dump the excavation from one directly onto the other, what's wrong with that? You wouldn't do it that way? You would be so honest and would drive to the landfill, pay there, drive back again and reload the same stuff? And if he did it that way, is the landfill then the culprit? Because they do nothing else all day long?!

If the civil engineer is lucky and can dump the excavation from one site directly onto the other, what's the problem? You wouldn't do it like that?!

I would do it that way too, but I wouldn't charge landfill fees that never occurred........

I would do it the same way, but not charge landfill fees that were never incurred........

That's exactly how it is. I work in the automotive industry, and if someone brings their car to me for scrapping and pays for it, it will be crushed. If I see that the car can still be sold, I either accept it for free or even give the person something for it and don't double charge.

Hello,

I work in the automotive industry, and when someone brings their car to me for scrapping and pays for it, it gets crushed. If I see that the car can still be sold, I either accept it for free or even give the person something for it and don't charge twice.

Good example ....

I clearly remember the scrapping bonus from a few years ago; quite a few of those cars are still driving somewhere on the globe today. Still, I would never get the idea to lump all scrap dealers together or argue in a generalized way.

Kind regards

I now have the problem that there is rubble mixed in with the excavation soil. None of this was known to the property seller, and a soil survey did not indicate it either. So apparently, there was once a house on the property in the past, and the remaining basement is now found in the excavation soil.

Now the property seller and construction company do not want to cover the additional costs. The construction company assumes normal soil conditions and calculates with €14/m³ accordingly. The construction company now has an offer from a company with the following items: 1) loading, transporting, and disposing of 150m³ of soil with rubble content: €24.50/m³ + 19% VAT 2) loading, transporting, and disposing of 100m³ of construction rubble with soil: €27.80/m³ + 19% VAT

Does anyone have different values here? Applicable for the Duisburg area. I am in the process of obtaining some further offers.

I think the volumes are lower than estimated. You can easily approximate this with the cone volume formula (1/3 x base area x height). In the end, I would request the receipts and see what actually accumulated.

Hello,

I now have the problem that there is rubble in the soil excavation. None of this was known to the property seller, and a soil report did not indicate it either. So apparently there was once a house on the property in the past, and the remaining basement is now found in the soil excavation.

A "normal or usually" commissioned soil report provides exclusively information about the load-bearing capacity of the soil; if a soil analysis is to be carried out, this must be explicitly requested.

Now the property seller and the construction company do not want to cover the additional costs.

Neither party has anything to do with this, nor are they responsible for it. You are the property owner; therefore, you are responsible for the condition of the property - according to all experience, a similar wording should also be found in your notary contract for the property.

Kind regards