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Hi Tracy
We have http://kit.landscapejuicenetwork.com/ for this (currently nothing on it). You can add your materials to the site and I can make sure this goes in the newsletter and on to our social media.
I need to add some new categories but that's soon done.
I was wondering if there was already something on Landscape Juice that would be useful! Thanks for this Phil. I'll let folk up here know and see if anyone would like to use this for materials as well as kit.
We used to take the building materials back to the builders merchants and plants back to the supplier if they came locally. Otherwise I would just store at my yard and use on another project - mind you I've got stuff here from 20 years ago! I know what you mean tho about the 'project packs' - they were just coming in when we stopped our hard landscaping. Maintenance is so easy in comparison.........but not so much fun!
The reasoning being that it is madness to rent or buy a yard to store materials that you are unlikely to use, just throwing good money after bad.
Andy
Makes good sense as well Andrew, all surplus materials should have been charged out on the job in the original price and leave the site 'free'. However, if you have space for temporary storage(which I have) it's rather satisfying re-using them for free!!
https://www.enviromate.co.uk/
is another place you could try as well as LJN
Aha! Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. I'd be interested to know if anyone has had a good or bad experience with such a site? And if they would prefer a 'landscape industry professionals' type of site rather than a general public site or if it doesn't matter?
Thanks for raising this publicly Tracy. This could be a good forum. One thing that has come up in the comments so far is the using surplus from newly purchased material. It would be good also to post if designers, landscapers, clients have materials that would otherwise go in the skip - you never know what someone else can use in their projects.
On that note, perhaps we could also post 'Materials' wanted?
We keep large stocks of all sorts but are just as likely to return surplus materials to suppliers.
I cultivate good relationships with all my suppliers (cheap cakes at Christmas from cash and carry go a long way!) and none of them charge me restocking fees.