Construction Clean Up

DAK

Quick question, I'm 17 and am going to being working for a brick mason full time this summer but I want to also do construction clean up on the side. My question is how many of you GC's pay for rough, drywall, and final clean up and about how much do yall tend to pay. The bossman of the company I will be working for is a close friend of mine and can help me get accounts. I also have a truck and trailer plus he has a dump trailer i can use if i need it. If yall have any tips they would be appreciated greatly thanks

dan

DAK

there somewhere else i should post this?

8ft2by4

We use a company here that charges 1900 bones per site. That includes pick up of all materials that have been sorted into containers for wood, metal, shingles, etc. They have a grinder they use to grind the wood, drywall, cement siding, etc. Anything that can be put back into the site is. This includes using the drywall as a soil amendment, the shingles and cement siding as underlayment for the driveway or garage slab and wood chips as landscape if the GC wants it. Everything else is hauled off and recycled or disposed of at the landfill. They company here also sweeps out the building every Friday.

DecksEtc

Most of the new home builders in my area just bury all the crap in the yards!

They also seem to have a knack for putting all of the bricks and lumber along the fence lines and/or wherever I'm building a deck!

LaurieC

Our subs clean up after themselves, and twice a month I bring in general labor to get everything that was missed, sweep etc... We don't pay much around $12/hr. As for the final construction clean...we let the HO hire someone for interior, and our landscaper handles exterior. Good luck!

d-rez

What I pay 1000 miles away from you is different from what you NEED to charge to run your business at a profit. Where are you??? If you have not already, compile an exhaustive list of your companies projected yearly costs. This is the foundation for your calculations for what you need to make/charge.

Cdat

Well, if you work for the guys across the street from me putting in a subdivision, they just dump their stuff inside of the new garage they just built the walls for, backfill with sand and throw a slab on top.

I myself offer 16 bucks an hour but usually hire friend's kids who need the money and are good workers. They use my dumpster and I take it to the dump. As we clean up after ourselves daily, it ain't much, just an hour or two a day.

woodchuck2

Shouldnt be a bad gig to get into and its cool your boss is willing to help, shows he is a good boss. As said above prices will vary per area, some cities/town require clean-up and proper disposal. Then there are locations such as where i am that you can bury anything you like in your back yard with the exception of a dead body or oil but i am sure there are folks around here who have.

WilsonRMDL

I worked for a builder last year that just threw it all in a big pile and lit it on fire. Not sure if he ever got in trouble or not. Are you sure you'll still want to be doing jobsite cleanup on the side while working full time for a brick mason? sounds like your either a big guy that can throw some weight around, or you dont know how tired your going to be after a day full of hauling bricks around.

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Magnettica

Just being around and seeing how things get done on a real job site will get you much valuable experience that u can later parlay into a real job. Cleaning up is an ok place to start I guess.

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