Remodeling Leftover Materials

Accomodation, House and Garden
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Hi Everybody!

We're embarking on a remodeling project of significant proportions.

In some cases, it feels like we're disposing of perfectly good and useful items, or items that somebody might be able to put to good use.

Top of the list at the moment is doors, some original doors from the 1930s, some newer doors (1980s?), we're probably going to replace our wood-fired stove in the kitchen (probably not original, but old, needs some love), and so on.

We're not concerned with making money (although, we wouldn't complain if we did), we'd like to know if there something we can do with this stuff that just doesn't seem so wasteful?

Thanks!

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That's a nice idea to at least try and rehome some items. Maybe post pictures here and see if folks are interested or have ideas on how to repurpose?

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Place on Tutti or Ricardo, contact a few local second hand shops....

And yes, it's totally wasteful - if I'm in a bad mood I don't go near our local 'waste transfer' station - it's so depressing to see perfectly good stuff being thrown in the garbage dump because people cannot be bothered or are unable to get rid of things...

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Your question piqued my interest, as I fondly remember hours sifting through the ‘leftover’ treasures at Chicago’s Salvage One. A search for something similar in Switzerland brings up this:

https://www.salza.ch/de

From a quick glance, it seems to be a platform to list ‘Bauteilen’, usable pieces leftover from renovation or demolition projects. I haven’t spent time figuring out how it works, but maybe this might be a solution?

According to the website, Salza is supported by the Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU)

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Great that you won't just want to throw everything away.

Have a look with the searchword "Bauteilenbörse".

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Much appreciated everybody, great suggestions!

We'll do our best to re-home everything we can.

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Ricardo and list with 1 CHF starting price.

My neighbor upstairs renovated the whole apartment and threw out basically everything, including an otherwise perfect kitchen.

He was apparently able to sell it via Ricardo for a couple of bucks.

The biggest challenge is that most people would still need to have some sort of contractor to install the stuff.

E.g. I was recently interested in a demo item of Fust, an induction cook-top.

However, while Fust does sell them via Ricardo, they will not, under any circumstances, install it.

Even if you order an oven on top (for the normal price), they will not touch the cook-top.

So, I guess it's mostly exported to other countries with cheaper labor...

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So long as it gets used for some benefit, and not just thrown in an incinerator (or land fill, haha), that's fine by me.

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Yeah. Every time I have to throw away some old computer-hardware, I feel terrible ;-)

But the truth is that most of our stuff is worthless and all the value is in our imagination...

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Here you can advertise for free.
https://bauboerse.bauschweiz.ch/

The important points for me in an ad are the specs, the location and access for a vehicle and whether I need to bring tools to take something apart.

We sold items when we renovated our previous home but also gave things away. We used Tutti and Ricardo. Sometimes there is skepticism when an item is free. Free items also tend to attract time wasters.

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There’s also this https://www.baumatpool.ch/de/