Screening is half of what Red Sand Supplies does. It is in the company strapline, "Specialising in Recycled Materials & Contract Screening", and it has been our trade for three generations.
The job is simple to describe and harder to do well. You have got a stockpile of something: sand, soil, crushed rubble, pit material, green waste fines. In it there is oversize, rubbish, and fractions you do not want. We put it over a screen and split it into sizes. What comes off is product you can use or sell, instead of a pile you are paying to store.
If your material is the right stuff but the wrong mix, screen it. If it is the right stuff but too big, crush it. A lot of jobs want both, and on those we run the crusher and the screen together and take one pile in and two or three products out.
The quick test: pick up a handful. If most of what you want is already in there and the problem is what is mixed through it, that is a screening job. If the pieces are simply too big to use, that is contract crushing.
We can cut to three fractions in one pass, and we can size down to minus 5mm. Tell us the sizes you need and the tonnage, and we will tell you whether it is one pass or two.
A single incoming stockpile usually contains more than one saleable thing. Waste asphalt is the clearest example we run: screened, it gives recycled asphalt road base and track material, two products with two markets out of one load that arrived as waste.
Same logic on a sand stockpile with rubble through it, or spoil with topsoil sitting over the top of it. The value is not in getting rid of the pile. It is in finding out what is in it.
We will bring the screen to your stockpile, or you can cart the material to Hope Valley and we will screen it there. On site suits big volumes and anywhere the product is going straight back into the job. Our yard suits smaller campaigns, tight sites and anyone who wants the material off their hands.
RSS hires screening plant as needed, matched to the job in front of us, rather than running one fixed machine for every material and volume.
Sand, soil and spoil. Crushed concrete and brick. Recycled asphalt. Pit material. Green waste fines. Mixed demolition rubble once it has been through a crusher.
Wet, clay bound material blinds a screen deck and the throughput falls away. It is worth knowing before you book, because a stockpile that has been sitting in winter rain screens differently to the same pile in February. Tell us if your material is wet and we will talk timing rather than turn up and find out.
Most stockpiles have something through them that should not be there: plastic, timber, wire, the odd bit of steel. Some of it comes out on the screen, some of it has to be picked before it goes in. We will look at the pile and tell you which, and what it does to the rate, before we price it.
Same as our crushing: the machine comes with our operator. We do not dry hire plant. Our people have been running screens on Perth material for a long time, and the difference between a good operator and a bare hire machine is usually a third of the day's production.
Two normal outcomes. You use it on the job it came from, which is the cheapest tonne you will ever put down. Or you sell it, it is yours to sell once it is screened. We do not buy screened product off a client's site.
Screening sorts material by size. Crushing changes the size. If your stockpile has the right material in it but mixed grades and rubbish through it, you need a screen. If the pieces are too big to use, you need a crusher. Plenty of jobs need both and we run them on the same site.
Yes. We bring the plant to your stockpile, or you cart the material to our Hope Valley yard and we screen it there. On site is usually cheaper once the volume is up, because nothing gets on a truck.
Up to three fractions in one pass, and we can size down to minus 5mm. Tell us what you need and we will confirm before we quote.
Per tonne of material through the machine, plus a fixed charge to get the plant on and off your site. Same shape as our crushing. The rate moves with the material, the moisture and how many fractions you want out of it.
The float on and off is the same cost whether the pile is small or large, so very small stockpiles usually work out better carted to our yard than screened where they sit. Tell us the tonnage and we will tell you which way round is cheaper.
Up to a point. Wet clay bound material blinds the deck and the rate drops off. It is a timing conversation more than a yes or no. Tell us what the pile is and when you need it done.
Some of it screens out and some has to be picked first. We will look at the pile before we price it and tell you which, because contamination is what turns a good rate into a bad one.
Normally we would supply everything the job needs. Talk to us about your site and we will confirm what is included before we quote.
Yes, it is your material. We do not buy screened product off a client's site.
Both. Soil, sand, spoil and green waste fines are as much of our screening work as crushed rubble is. Our own soil conditioner and landscape mix come out of that side of the yard.
No. Our plant comes with our operator.
Send a quote request and we will come back with a firm delivered price, or call the yard.