Cement Powder Bagged Disposal?

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
I have an old bag of cement powder, what do I do with it?
Information on the net is vague.

[mercalia]

put it down the loo give the fatberg people something to get their teeth into

[rjb]

Fill some of those pot holes.

[kwackers]

Wet it, let it go hard and throw it in the rubble skip at the tip.
Most of that stuff goes as hardcore for building work.

If it's old then it's probably useless anyway.

[pwa]

Wet it, let it go hard and throw it in the rubble skip at the tip.
Most of that stuff goes as hardcore for building work.

If it's old then it's probably useless anyway.

+1
If you can't find a use for it, or if it is unfit to use, leave it out in the rain and come back to it in a few weeks when it will be one lump of rock you can take to the council's recycling place to put in the rubble skip. Or rinse it down the sink? What could go wrong?

[Cugel]

Hi,
I have an old bag of cement powder, what do I do with it?
Information on the net is vague.

If it's still usable, give it to someone who can use it. Why is "throw it away" always the default response in these situations? It seems we've been tutored to think that "my property" must be "mine or no-one's". We've been enscroogelated!

Cugel

[kwackers]

Hi,
I have an old bag of cement powder, what do I do with it?
Information on the net is vague.

If it's still usable, give it to someone who can use it. Why is "throw it away" always the default response in these situations? It seems we've been tutored to think that "my property" must be "mine or no-one's". We've been enscroogelated!

Cugel

It's "old".
Old cement is rarely of any use. Nothing worse than spending ages putting up a brick wall, putting down a patio etc etc only to find the stuff won't go off.

A bag of cement is about £3, you'd be hard pushed to find anyone willing to come and collect it let along risk the effort of using it.

Plus, have you tried giving stuff away these days? Nobody wants it. Stuff no longer has value.
If it did you'll be swamped by folk who will put it on eBay otherwise...

[Mick F]

Wet it, let it go hard and throw it in the rubble skip at the tip.
Most of that stuff goes as hardcore for building work.

If it's old then it's probably useless anyway.

They charge for rubble and builders' waste at our local dump.

If I had any cement I didn't want or couldn't use, I'd keep it dry and put some in the rubbish for collection once a week. In a month or two, it would be all gone.

[kwackers]

They charge for rubble and builders' waste at our local dump.

I thought you lot just chucked it down the nearest mine shaft?

[Mick F]

They charge for rubble and builders' waste at our local dump.

I thought you lot just chucked it down the nearest mine shaft?

Those days are gone now, or they are at least round here.
Many of the mines are either capped off or the buildings restored - and capped off as well. Some have gratings over for the bats to get in and out.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.51465 ... 312!8i6656

[horizon]

We just don't know the half of it:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019 ... f-concrete

[Cugel]

Hi,
I have an old bag of cement powder, what do I do with it?
Information on the net is vague.

If it's still usable, give it to someone who can use it. Why is "throw it away" always the default response in these situations? It seems we've been tutored to think that "my property" must be "mine or no-one's". We've been enscroogelated!

Cugel

It's "old".
Old cement is rarely of any use. Nothing worse than spending ages putting up a brick wall, putting down a patio etc etc only to find the stuff won't go off.

A bag of cement is about £3, you'd be hard pushed to find anyone willing to come and collect it let along risk the effort of using it.

Plus, have you tried giving stuff away these days? Nobody wants it. Stuff no longer has value.
If it did you'll be swamped by folk who will put it on eBay otherwise...

You may or may not be correct about the cement in question. Still, even old cement in a bag might make a handy doorstop for someone's shed.

I've given away loadsa stuff, including redundant (to me) bike parts, furniture I made, a zillion books, some picture-glass (nearly 100 sheets), a whole bike and a great deal of other items. I've also e-bayed loadsa stuff and obtained sizable cash dollops with which to buy some other tool, bike-bit or other new-use (to me) thing. I can't remember the last time I threw anything away, other than the blasted packaging that every little thing is swathed in these days (which all goes in the recycling bags, for what that's worth). Even the tattie peelings go in the compost. And the offcuts from my furniture-making feed someone's wood-burner up or perhaps down the road. The sawdust also gets added to the compost.

I could go on (and on and on).

The cynical attitude you espouse is, I believe, just a belief, not based on experience except of the self-fulfilling prophecy kind. If you never try to give stuff away, no one will accept free stuff from you. Try it. You might like it.

Cugel

[kwackers]

The cynical attitude you espouse is, I believe, just a belief, not based on experience except of the self-fulfilling prophecy kind. If you never try to give stuff away, no one will accept free stuff from you. Try it. You might like it.

Cugel

No, sorry it's not.

I post stuff all the time on Freecycle (or whatever it's called these days), Facebook etc, occasionally it works and folk come and collect the goodies.
Often folk say they'll come and don't or nobody simply wants it.

I also do the converse and pick up stuff from others that I want to use.

Ultimately though if it has "value" it goes on Freecycle / Facebook first and if I'm convinced somebody somewhere should want it I'll even relist it a couple of times.

Ultimately though if nobody wants it then it's off to the tip but it's very rare I'll take something to the tip before giving it a chance.

P.S. I've got about 2 cubic meters of stones and rocks I 'filtered' from a flower bed in my garden - you're welcome to them if you want them otherwise they'll be going in a skip.

<edit>
And with impeccable timing my Freecycle 'digest' email has just turned up, turns out it's now called 'Freegle'.
It's also more a 'wanted' list than 'free' list. Which reminds me I tried to give away my old Dyson vacuum cleaner to someone who was begging for one - it works fine, did I even get a reply? Nope.

[Cugel]

The cynical attitude you espouse is, I believe, just a belief, not based on experience except of the self-fulfilling prophecy kind. If you never try to give stuff away, no one will accept free stuff from you. Try it. You might like it.

Cugel

No, sorry it's not.

I post stuff all the time on Freecycle (or whatever it's called these days), Facebook etc, occasionally it works and folk come and collect the goodies.
Often folk say they'll come and don't or nobody simply wants it.

I also do the converse and pick up stuff from others that I want to use.

Ultimately though if it has "value" it goes on Freecycle / Facebook first and if I'm convinced somebody somewhere should want it I'll even relist it a couple of times.

Ultimately though if nobody wants it then it's off to the tip but it's very rare I'll take something to the tip before giving it a chance.

P.S. I've got about 2 cubic meters of stones and rocks I 'filtered' from a flower bed in my garden - you're welcome to them if you want them otherwise they'll be going in a skip.

<edit>
And with impeccable timing my Freecycle 'digest' email has just turned up, turns out it's now called 'Freegle'.
It's also more a 'wanted' list than 'free' list. Which reminds me I tried to give away my old Dyson vacuum cleaner to someone who was begging for one - it works fine, did I even get a reply? Nope.

In the last year me and t'ladywife have given away 7 items via freecycle, from car topbox, whole bike (working and unworn), sewing machine, double pine bed .................. to a box of redundant woodworking tools. They were all eagerly taken and I saw at least 4 of them being used by the recipient, with my very own peepers.

We have offered stuff with no takers. Strangely, it sometimes e-bays on a third attempt. In the final state of "unwanted via any channel" we take it to one of those tips where blokes eagerly sort through it and somehow find a home for it, presumably out of a vast knowledge and experience of who wants what.

Here in West Wales there's a group who'll even take broken stuff, including electricals, for fixing and donating to worthy causes, in Blighty and abroad.

One must just persist and be determined not to chuck stuff at the tip.

It does help if you never buy dross.

Cugel

[pwa]

Wet it, let it go hard and throw it in the rubble skip at the tip.
Most of that stuff goes as hardcore for building work.

If it's old then it's probably useless anyway.

They charge for rubble and builders' waste at our local dump.

If I had any cement I didn't want or couldn't use, I'd keep it dry and put some in the rubbish for collection once a week. In a month or two, it would be all gone.

I have a mental image of you sneakily doing that Great Escape trick of hiding it inside your trouser leg then releasing it while whistling and shuffling it about with your feet.