Industry

Pallets for construction, where the site eats them.

Nobody returns a pallet from a building site. The economics here are entirely about the cheapest platform that survives one delivery and a forklift with a driver in a hurry.

View into a loaded trailer stacked to the roof with wood pallets, rear doors open to blue sky — LoadedAbout 330 units, two high, roughly 15,000 lb in a trailer rated for three times that. Pallet loads cube out long before they gross out.

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Give us the quantity, the size and the ZIP. You'll get a written quote with the grade, the freight and the pickup window — not a sales call.

Written quotes, usually inside one business day
Loads from 100 pallets to full 53' trailers
We buy as readily as we sell — tell us which way it flows

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Warehouse aisle lined on both sides with tall stacks of used wood pallets on a polished concrete floor, roof lights overhead

Inside the building

The sort aisle at half past seven. Graded stock on the left, waiting to be worked on the right.

Dense loads, cheap platforms

The two requirements pull in opposite directions.

Building product is heavy: a cube of brick is around 2,600 lb, a pallet of shingles about 2,300, a bundle of block often more. Those numbers push you toward a strong pallet.

But the pallet is never coming back. It gets unloaded on a muddy site by a rough-terrain forklift and left there, which pushes you toward the cheapest thing that works. The answer is usually a heavy-deck Grade B or a purpose-built remanufactured unit with thicker boards and a shorter expected life — strong where it needs to be, cheap everywhere else.

We build these specifically. They are not glamorous and the margin is thin, but they are the correct product for the job.

Heavy-deck construction on an expendable price basis
Grade B and remanufactured stock in volume
Bulk delivery direct to yards and merchant depots
Site and yard clear-outs for accumulated empties
Ground fibre and mulch supply back the other way

Questions

Construction questions

What grade should we buy for brick and block?

Usually a heavy-deck Grade B. Grade A structure is wasted on a one-way delivery, but standard-deck stock will fail under a dense cube. It is a specific combination and it is worth asking for by name.

Can you clear a site?

Yes, subject to access — we need firm ground and room for a 53-foot trailer. Tell us the access situation honestly in the message field; a wasted trip costs us both.

Do you buy construction pallets back?

Rarely at a positive price. Site-returned stock is usually wet, muddy and broken, which makes it a removal job rather than a purchase. We will tell you which one it is before we come.

Do you supply mulch to landscape contractors?

Yes, in bulk. See mulch and wood fibre — it is often the same customers in the other direction.

Load reference

What building products actually weigh

Construction supply is dense freight. These are the loads that break standard-deck pallets, and they are heavier than most people assume.

Product	Typical unit load	Deck requirement	Notes
Cube of brick	2,300 – 2,900 lb	Heavy deck, 4 stringers	Concentrated, and stacked outdoors
Pallet of concrete block	2,400 – 3,200 lb	Heavy deck, 4 stringers	Often banded directly to the deck
Bundle of shingles	2,000 – 2,400 lb	Heavy deck	Rooftop delivery adds a handling case
Bagged cement, 42 × 80 lb	≈ 3,400 lb	Heavy deck, tight gaps	Bags sag between wide-spaced boards
Sheet goods, plywood or OSB	1,500 – 2,600 lb	Flat deck, low gaps	Wants a flat surface more than strength
Ceramic tile	1,800 – 2,600 lb	Heavy deck	Fragile and dense together
Insulation	200 – 500 lb	Any grade	Light, bulky, cube-limited
Rebar bundles	2,000 – 5,000 lb	Skid or engineered	Frequently better on runners than a pallet

Site delivery

What makes a construction delivery work

01Confirm site access before the first loadFirm ground, turning room and overhead clearance. Construction sites change weekly and what worked in March may not work in June.
02Specify expendable and mean itNothing comes back from a building site. Paying for Grade A structural margin on a one-way delivery is money that stays on the site with the pallet.
03Heavy deck, not high gradeThe requirement is deck thickness and stringer count, not cosmetic condition. A heavy-deck Grade B is the correct product and it is rarely offered unless you ask.
04Plan the clear-out in advanceEmpties accumulate on sites until somebody notices. A scheduled collection during the build costs less than a clear-out at handover.
05Watch weather exposure on staged stockMaterial staged outdoors for weeks loses grade fast. If pallets are being stored on site before use, get them off the ground and covered.

Merchant and yard supply

The other half of construction pallet demand

Builders' merchants and supply yards sit between the manufacturer and the site, and they have a genuinely different problem: they receive on pallets, break bulk, and re-deliver on pallets, all outdoors.

Weather exposure is the defining constraint. Yard stock lives outside by necessity, which means grade degrades continuously and the economic answer is a lower grade replaced more often rather than a higher grade preserved.

Return flow is intermittent and unsorted. Merchants accumulate a mix of everything their suppliers used, in every condition, which is exactly the load profile that suits a recycler with a proper sort deck and suits a broker badly.

Delivery vehicles are often crane-equipped rather than dock-based, which changes the handling case — slings and forks from a lorry-mounted crane put loads on a pallet that a warehouse forklift never would.