How to Find Free Building Materials for a Home?

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How to Find Free Building Materials for a Home?
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Calling builders, searching the Internet, driving
by construction sites and talking to others
enables one to obtain high-quality building
materials at little to no cost. Identifying your
material needs in advance enables you to minimize
the cost and time required to find what you need.
Researching local regulations and the waste
collection system in your city enables the savvy
person to not only obtain free building material,
but also receive payment for hauling away the
building material.
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Instructions 1 Drive in the alley behind grocery,
big box, department and convenience stores and
look in their dumpsters. Many will throw out
large quantities of wooden pallets. These can be
used for building the foundation of decks,
porches and sheds. Dismantling the pallets can
provide smaller pieces of wood that are useful
for building shelves and cabinets.
2. Drive behind lumberyards, electric supply
outlets, plumbing stores and door/window/glass
shops. Look in their dumpsters for pallets, wire,
tables, glass and other building supplies. Often
they toss spools of wire, cord and wood when
there is a small amount or small pieces left that
are not worth selling. They also may throw out
cosmetically damaged items that they do not have
room for in their shop or are not valuable enough
to sell.
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3. Call a couple of local trash removal
businesses and find out what they charge to
remove 10 cubic feet of wood. This provides you
with an estimate of how much you could charge for
removing large items or large quantities of
items.
4. Drive around construction sites and home
renovation projects. Often they throw out large
amounts because items such as shingles can not be
purchased in small quantities, and once a package
is opened it can't be returned. If you see large
amounts of material, offer to haul away all
material for a fee that is no more than half of
what the local trash collector charges. This
win-win situation provides you with money,
valuable building material and the opportunity to
develop a relationship with the builder or
renovator so they may give you additional
material.
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5. Call local builders and demolition companies
and offer to haul away their unused building
materials for a small fee, no more than half the
local trash collector's fee. This saves them the
cost of disposal and provides you with money to
purchase any building materials you can not
scavenge. It also gives you access to large
amounts of free discarded building materials.
6. Check out garage sales just before closing
many will give away leftover items. 7.Use an
online search engine to find free building
material, and check online bulletin boards, such
as Craigslist, for free material.
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