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Estimate debris removal cost from volume, bulking, truck trips, haul distance, tipping fees and loading labour.
This estimator prices the removal of construction and demolition debris from the volume you measured on site, applying the two things that decide the bill: bulking and truck capacity. Broken material takes more space than it did in place — a bulking factor of about 1.5 for concrete and 1.25 for excavated soil — and the number of tipper trips is set by whichever limit is reached first, the body volume or the payload in tonnes. Trip hire, round-trip distance, tipping fees charged per tonne at the processing facility, loading labour and permit charges are then itemised so a contractor's quote can be checked line by line.
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Enter the values you already know.
Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.
Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.
Converts measured in-place volume to the loose volume trucks actually carry.
Shows which of the two limits your trip count, so dense rubble is not under-booked.
Trip hire, distance, tipping, labour and permit fees listed separately, at your rates.
Multiply the area by the thickness for the in-place volume, then apply a bulking factor — broken concrete typically swells to about 1.5 times its original volume, brick rubble around 1.4 and excavated soil roughly 1.25. A 40 square metre slab 150 mm thick is 6 cubic metres in place and close to 9 cubic metres of loose rubble to haul away.
Divide the loose volume by the truck's body capacity and the tonnage by its payload, then take the higher figure and round up. Dense material like concrete usually hits the weight limit with the body only part-full, so booking on volume alone under-counts the trips and the quote goes up on site.
Loose rubble runs roughly 1.1 to 1.5 tonnes per cubic metre — concrete and soil at the top of that band, mixed debris carrying timber, plaster and packaging nearer 0.9. Tipping fees at processing facilities are normally charged per tonne, so the weight matters as much as the volume for the disposal cost.
At an authorised C&D waste processing facility, not on vacant land or in ordinary municipal bins. India's Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules place the duty on the waste generator to segregate and hand over the material, and local bodies levy penalties for dumping. Segregating clean concrete and brick often lowers the tipping charge because that fraction is recyclable.
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