If you decide to tidy up the garden and have a large amount of garden waste and rubbish that has been hanging round waiting for this very opportunity to throw it away, hiring a skip may well be the most practical option, rather than piling dirty bags overflowing with garden waste and soil covered bricks, rubble and concrete slabs in the back of the car for multiple trips to the local tip.
Similarly if you’re clearing out the garage, attic, kids bedrooms or maybe moving house and have come across all sorts of broken items, outdated and beyond repair pieces of furniture or things set aside to ‘do something with’ one day, you may decide to call on your local reliable skip hire company to come to the rescue and deliver a skip to take away your unwanted junk. Or you may be having building work done, fitting a new kitchen or bathroom or replacing fencing or paving in your garden and need the old items out of the way to make room for the new. Whatever you need to hire a skip for, there are a number of items you may not realise cannot be dumped in a skip along with normal domestic household waste.
The following items cannot be thrown away in a skip and have to be disposed of following the proper environmental agency guidelines:
- asbestos
- WEEE – waste electrical and electronic equipment
- paint
- florescent lamps and light bulbs
- plasterboard
- tyres
- solvents and liquids including waste oil and fuel
A ‘roll on roll off’ skip is for the use of a large quantity of waste. The majority of people hire a roll on roll off skip when they have a large quantity of waste so they do not have to hire out a lot of smaller builders skips. Roll on roll off skips are often used by people having an office or shop refurbishment or are having a clear out of unwanted waste.
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Yesterday I discussed loading your skip whilst you wait and what not to put in your skip to avoid extra charges from your skip hire company. Following on, this post provides a few more hints and tips on how to get the most for your money when hiring a skip.
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When you undertake any home improvements there will be rubbish that will need be removed and with most local councils now adopting stricter policies on what and how much waste people can dispose of in their rubbish bin, hiring a skip is a sensible option.
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I begin with a tale about a couple that was just about to get hitched who woke up one morning to find eight tonnes of rubble in their driveway. The couple had recently spent £20,000 renovating their home and garden in the month leading up to their wedding in order to get the home of their dreams, but trouble struck when they ended up in a dispute with a skip hire company because the firm said that the couple had overloaded the skip and refused to take it away.
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Most people don’t hire skips very often so when the time comes that we need to call on a skip company, the jargon of the different names, sizes and types can prove a little confusing. Check out our guide giving you a rough idea of size and general use of each type of skip to help you find the product for your needs.
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Did you know that you no longer can place a skip directly onto a public highway? If you are needing to place a skip on a public road you must, in advance, apply for a license. This is something that must be carried out by a skip hire company in any given area, such as a skip hire company in Stoke-on-Trent, or a registered building company/contractor. General public and local residents can not apply to local councils. When ordering a skip from a local company they will be fully aware of this and usually include this fee in with the cost of hiring a skip.
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