Skip Hire Basics

Large Skip Hire Ulverston  hire skips for a variety of reasons. Having a spring clear out, removing a vintage kitchen or bathroom, attempting to remove plenty of garden waste are reasons why people hire skips.

Hiring a skip is really a fairly simple process, a lot more so nowadays with many companies offering the choice of booking your skip online. Usually the process is as follows. Book the hiring of your skip from a skip hire company providing them with a romantic date and time you desire your skip delivered and the size of skip you need. Your skip should arrive on the date you specified. It is possible to usually keep carefully the skip so long as is required to fill it with your waste. Once you skip is ready for removal, simply supply the skip hire company 48 hours notice of when you want your skip collected.

Another option many skip hire companies offer is a 'wait and load' service. This implies the skip will be delivered and the driver will wait while you load it and take it away. That is ideal if you have a pile of waste ready for loading and don't require the skip for a longer period of time.

If there is no room on your own property for the skip it will have to be placed on the general public road/pavement. For a skip to be placed on the public road/pavement a permit from the council is necessary. Usually this permit could be arranged by the skip hire company once you order your skip, even though some councils insist that the applicant for the permit must be the person hiring the skip. Also, if the skip is to be placed on the road it's the responsibility of the person hiring the skip to make sure it has to appropriate warning lights attached. These lights can usually be hired from the skip hire company when ordering the skip.

It is possible to fill your skip with virtually anything with the exception of a few items these include aerosols, gas canisters, computer monitors, televisions, full paint cans, food waste, tyres, fridges or freezers.

The skip should not be overloaded. This can cause problems in picking right up the skip and in addition is hazardous to pedestrians and motorists. The skip should not be loaded above the most notable of the walls of the skip. If the skip is overloaded the skip hire company usually reserve the proper to 'level' the waste on picking up the skip if the skip is regarded as unsuitable for transport.

Skips come in a variety of sizes. The smallest is what's referred to as a Mini Skip, can take up to 1.5 cubic metres of wastes but is not always available everywhere in the UK. Another size is a Midi Skip that is ideal of bathroom and kitchen refits and may hold up to 3 cubic metres. The most common skip size is what's known as a Builders Skip it could endure to 4.6 cubic metres of waste (as much as 50-60 bin bags) and is available all around the UK. There are larger skip sizes available but some of these are not ideal for very heavy waste because of the weight of the fully loaded skip.

Anything you require your skip so long as you use a reputable company your skip hire experience ought to be hassle free.