Andrewcook Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Why can most Boat Yards Charge the Same of doing Pump out Charges as some of them do differ from other Boat Yards why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea14Ian Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Overheads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargeandParge Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Hi Ian Must be a funny set up on your boat as most people pump from under the heads Regards Marge and Parge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshman Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Why is diesel different prices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBerkshireBoy Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 7 minutes ago, marshman said: Why is diesel diferent prices? Might that depend on how much a yard is charged based on how much they sell each year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annv Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Andrew it's called competition! may be if we were a Communist state the prices would be the same but the end product wouldn't. John 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YnysMon Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Last time we got our fuel from Swancraft the owner was very apologetic. He'd just had a delivery of fuel and the price that he'd paid had risen so much since his previous delivery that he'd had to hike the price he was passing on to his customers by about 20p. He was very upfront about it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambridgeCabby Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Our pump out today at Sutton was £20 , single holding tank but two WC’s so they charged £20 , first time that has happened to us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Ricko Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 its not a real money spinner for a yard to do a pump out, its more of a service and possibly building a relationship so they can possibly get a bit of work out of you! A hire yard may do pump outs on non turnaround days just to give staff something to do.. Brundall yards are generally a bit more expensive (if they do them ) as they have to tanker the S**T away as there is no mains sewer.. Im not sure what Brundall charges but north is generally £15 for one or £20 for two but some yards like to do them cheap and get the volume in.. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouldy Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, C.Ricko said: . . . . . . . but some yards like to do them cheap and get the volume in.. I take it you mean volume of business, not volume of s**t . . . . . . . . . although thinking about it, volume of business covers it either way!! 😉 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyg Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, C.Ricko said: its not a real money spinner for a yard to do a pump out, its more of a service and possibly building a relationship so they can possibly get a bit of work out of you! A hire yard may do pump outs on non turnaround days just to give staff something to do.. Brundall yards are generally a bit more expensive (if they do them ) as they have to tanker the S**T away as there is no mains sewer.. Im not sure what Brundall charges but north is generally £15 for one or £20 for two but some yards like to do them cheap and get the volume in.. I always thought all pumpout waste went into a septic tank of some sort and was then disposed of. Didn't realise it went into the main sewers. I guess I thought that because of the blue chemical. You learn something new every day lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helian Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 42 minutes ago, C.Ricko said: its not a real money spinner for a yard to do a pump out, its more of a service and possibly building a relationship so they can possibly get a bit of work out of you! A hire yard may do pump outs on non turnaround days just to give staff something to do.. Brundall yards are generally a bit more expensive (if they do them ) as they have to tanker the S**T away as there is no mains sewer.. Im not sure what Brundall charges but north is generally £15 for one or £20 for two but some yards like to do them cheap and get the volume in.. Last time we visited Brooms at Brundall in mid September it was £18 for one tank, and I don't think that has changed in the last 4 years. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 16 hours ago, C.Ricko said: its not a real money spinner for a yard to do a pump out, its more of a service and possibly building a relationship so they can possibly get a bit of work out of you! A hire yard may do pump outs on non turnaround days just to give staff something to do.. Brundall yards are generally a bit more expensive (if they do them ) as they have to tanker the S**T away as there is no mains sewer.. Im not sure what Brundall charges but north is generally £15 for one or £20 for two but some yards like to do them cheap and get the volume in.. Brundall now charges £36.00 for two tanks and their fuel prices are about the dearest on the Broads. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broads01 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 If you're hiring, it comes in handy if your route takes you past your own boatyard midweek because they'll do you a pump out for free. I managed that myself twice this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham47 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 On 10/01/2022 at 20:37, andyg said: I always thought all pumpout waste went into a septic tank of some sort and was then disposed of. Didn't realise it went into the main sewers. I guess I thought that because of the blue chemical. You learn something new every day lol... When I hired from Alpha Craft the pump outs were pumped into large tanker ( Like they have on farms ) When it was full Langford used to hook it up to the tractor and take it up to manhole cover up by the Station, just past the Yare Pub and empty it into there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamElla Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 I thought that chemical toilet waste was prohibited from being discharged into public sewers due to the formaldehide in the blue, that needed specialist treatment (and that accounted at least in part for the level of pump out charges) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamElla Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Marinas prohibit the disposal in toilet blocks (instead going to the expense of putting in dedicated disposal points) but that could be just to prevent blue being splashed about in the toilet compartments by careless individuals. Then again, have you ever tried to control the discharge from a portapotti cassette? At least those of us with pump out toilets don't have to worry about that but it does get expensive if you want to use the boat for just a few days at a time and always leave it clean. Who knows when you can get back to it in the current fluid Covid situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Port loos can be discharged into a mains sewer, not a grey sewer such as road gulleys. Most chemicals have been formaldehyde free for some years. Marinas that have treatment plants don't allow porta loos to be emptied as it affects the plants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamElla Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 minute ago, ExSurveyor said: Marinas that have treatment plants don't allow porta loos to be emptied as it affects the plants. Left yourself wide open there Mark. (Don't you just know that someone out there is thinking up a smart answer to that! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 2 minutes ago, TeamElla said: Left yourself wide open there Mark. (Don't you just know that someone out there is thinking up a smart answer to that! ) Not only plants, but fish and the treatment plant(s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rightsaidfred Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 I can think of one or two boats where you don't need plants to get a high. Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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