If you’re looking to remove waste from your location at a more leisurely pace, hiring a skip is the perfect option. With a skip on your driveway, you can remove and store rubbish over several days, which is especially useful for scenarios such as a renovation that could take weeks or months. However, if you haven’t used a skip before, you may be unsure of what items can be put into it and what types of rubbish removal jobs a skip is best suited for. In this blog, we’ve split skip hire into two simple categories: dos and don’ts.
Skip Hire Dos:
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Fill to level load: It’s important not to overfill your skip. Once waste reaches the top, you should consider getting the skip emptied. Overfilled skips are dangerous as they become too heavy to lift safely.
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Furniture: Perfect for house clearances, you can use skips to dispose of old furniture. Try to dismantle furniture as much as possible to lay the waste flat and get as much use out of your skip as possible.
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Plastic: This difficult-to-get-rid-of material is fine to be placed into your hired skip.
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Keep on private property: Although you can place skips on the road or in parking spaces, this requires extra documentation and extra costs. If possible, it’s best to keep a skip on your property to keep costs down.
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Wood: Whether it’s from your garden or just scrap pieces in your garage, you can safely put wood into a skip.
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Acquire permits if necessary: Efficient skip hire service providers such as Skipper Waste will acquire any extra documentation required on your behalf.
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Check weight limit: Enquire about the weight limit of your skip to ensure you don’t exceed it when filling it.
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Allow for easy access: Skips are delivered by trucks that will need clear access to your desired delivery spot.
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Cardboard: Skips are perfect for getting rid of excess cardboard packaging, especially if you’re already hiring a skip for another task.
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Commercial customers: Roll-on roll-off (RoRo) skips are perfect for removing a large amount of waste from commercial settings. Office furniture clearances are also a common job that requires large masses of items to be removed conveniently.
Skip Hire Don’ts:
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Park in front of the skip: Obstructing access to your skip on the day of collection can result in us being unable to collect your skip, and you’ll have to rebook your collection and pay for it again.
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Liquids: Liquids should not be stored inside a skip as they can spill and create a mess that is not suited to skip rubbish removal.
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Asbestos: This is a very specialist type of waste that must be professionally and carefully removed and is not to be put into skips.
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Batteries: Batteries can be disposed of properly at places such as supermarkets. They should not be put into bins or skips as they can cause fires at waste processing plants.
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Cover manholes: If you must place a skip on the road, ensure there are no manhole covers in your desired space.
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Petrol: You can get rid of petrol, diesel, and other oils at your council’s waste center.
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Fridges, freezers, and other electrical items: Getting rid of items such as these is much better suited to our ‘Man and Van’ removal service.
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Gas canisters: This is another type of waste that requires specialist care to be removed and should not be put into your skip, even if they’re empty.
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Set fire to waste: This should be obvious, but just in case: don’t set fire to items in your skip. This is also why it’s important that you don’t
