But for residential builders looking to acquire inexpensive building materials such as insulation and flooring etc, you will often get lucky. Much of the materials available online come from decommissioned commercial buildings rather than houses, as the quantities available are worth the effort of involving a broker.
Rather than paying to remove and dispose of building materials that still have life in them, contracting companies can instead receive a cheque in hand when someone comes to pick up their waste. This saves usable building materials from ending up in landfills, and from a financial perspective, both parties win here. On many of these sites you can search by category and location with some (such as Sustainabuild Canada), you can also put in a request for certain materials and receive notification if what you are looking for becomes available in your region. There are also many dedicated online websites that connect buyers with contractors disassembling old buildings, or offer a place to buy and sell leftover materials from building projects and home upgrades. There is a growing amount of used building materials that can be found at online classified websites such as Craigslist and Kijiji, but finding what you are looking for can be very hit and miss.
When buildings are decommissioned there can be a lot of valuable materials that could be used again, but when buyers can’t find sellers, otherwise usable materials are being sent to a land fill.
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