Soil Removal - Costing?

Ames84 · Apr 28, 2009 10:51 am

Has anyone cost rough costings for what they have had to pay for soil removal??

Our builders have come back to us with an estimate pricing of $5500, for 10 loads. They didnt realise how much there would be, so the contractors that they have used and the director have agreed to pay for 5 of the loads, but it would cost us $2750.

I am in the process of getting some quotes off some excavators at the moment, and one guy seemed pretty nice and that he would do the job for cheap. He mentioned that he had a few sites that he could get rid of it to for cheap...

Anyone got any ideas?

guest · Apr 28, 2009 11:19 am

In melb

If cost around 75plus gst for bobcat driver and 10 cubic meter truck.
and cost around 80-100 per truck to tip.

So for 10loads you will be looking at 1000. Plus time to load truck and drive to tip.
There is probably 2days work. So for bob cat 1360 approx.
so thats about $2500.

So it looks like you are covering there share as well. I dont think they are paying half like they say.

Ames84 · Apr 28, 2009 11:28 am

See, they have dug all the soil up so it just needs to be loaded onto a truck...

They are saying that it would be around $550 per load for the removal... I think its a bit excessive.

lisanne · Apr 28, 2009 11:38 am

Ames84

See, they have dug all the soil up so it just needs to be loaded onto a truck...

They are saying that it would be around $550 per load for the removal... I think its a bit excessive.

It's not the removing so much that is expensive, it's where ever they are taking it to dump it that can become expensive.

guest · Apr 28, 2009 11:41 am

yes $550 is expensive. Clean fill is cheap to dump. $550 is the cost to dump a truck load of rubbish not clean fill.

andrew78m · Apr 28, 2009 11:51 am

It may depend on the distance to the dump.

What area of sydney are you in? Worth getting a few quotes.

Ames84 · Apr 28, 2009 11:58 am

Im building in Spring Farm which is in the Camden Area.

Its all clean fill... There is no rubbish in it!!

We are getting 3 separate quotes at the moment and have also spoken to the contractor that they use to see what price he would do for us...

newbuilder75 · Apr 28, 2009 1:23 pm

we're in syd and ours was $350 per truck or $600 for truck & dog - supposed to be clean fill but wasn't that clean once they started to dig it up!

guest · Apr 28, 2009 1:25 pm

newbuilder75

we're in syd and ours was $350 per truck or $600 for truck & dog - supposed to be clean fill but wasn't that clean once they started to dig it up!

if it wasnt clean fill then what was it. I hope you werent building on a rubbish tip ::surprise::

Ames84 · Apr 28, 2009 1:31 pm

newbuilder75

we're in syd and ours was $350 per truck or $600 for truck & dog - supposed to be clean fill but wasn't that clean once they started to dig it up!

Do you know who your builders used to remove it all??

newbuilder75 · Apr 28, 2009 1:55 pm

no sorry. it was part of our build/contract cost. i'm not sure who they got to actually remove the soil. sorry i can't be much help to you.

ozberg · Apr 28, 2009 1:56 pm

If its soil (topsoil) you should be nearly able to get someone to pick it up. If its fill then might cost you some. If someone is after fill (check classifieds etc), they would possibly pay for the transportation component. Wish you were closer to lithgow!!

kyton · Apr 28, 2009 2:00 pm

The main issue is finding somewhere to dump it. Unless you can strike someone like me (who last month needed 500 tonne) you will have to pay to dump it. Even then if you did find someone you will still have to pay to transport it and possibly when they dump it they may have to smooth it out. We are accepting clean fill at present and it is under the proviso that as it gets dumped it gets smoothed by the company at the same time. We had around 150 tonne delivered yesterday and the company had the dingo going all day pushing it around to an even height. The person who wanted to get rid of the dirt had to foot this bill - not us.

Mel&Em · Apr 28, 2009 5:46 pm

I had 9 truck loads removed as well as 28 retaining wall post holes dug by an excavator for $1600. Dumping dirt was free as they are building a road nearby (as long as it's clean fill). That was 3 weeks ago.

Em