All You Need To Know About Hiring a Skip
Booking a skip can be a relatively overwhelming task for many, as there’s many factors to address before completing your skip hire order.
Fortunately, this helpful guide will provide you with all the insight you need to hire a skip with complete peace-of-mind, without making any unnecessary and costly mistakes.
Typically, the first thing that springs to mind when booking a skip, is what items can go in to a Skip. It’s important to know what can or can’t go inside your skip to avoid any avoidable charges or in some cases refusal to collect the skip.
Generally, Skip types are split as follows:
- General or Mixed Waste
- Garden or Green Waste
- Plasterboard
- Wood Waste
- Hardcore Waste
- Inert or Muck Waste
There are separate containers for WEEE Waste or asbestos, and hazardous waste streams.
Skip Waste Materials
The size of the skip will ultimately come down to the amount of waste that you are looking to dispose of.
As long as you have an approximate idea on the volume of waste, then our Skip Size guide will provide you with an accurate estimation.
We provide Skips ranging from 2yd-40yd, taking care of all requirements.
To prevent the need for exchanging your Skip, it’s important to select the Skip size that is big enough to manage all your waste in the first instance.
Skip Size Guide
The cost of a Skip will depend on a variety of different factors, namely the size, waste materials for disposal and area of delivery.
As you would expect, the larger the Skip. the more it will cost.
Equally, those Skips with ‘mixed’ waste and therefore require additional labour to segregate for landfill avoidance, will incur additional cost to those single-line waste streams that are easily recycled.
The other consideration is location. It’s always advisable to choose a Skip supplier that has Waste Transfer stations near by, as it will reduce the transportation mileage and subsequent costs.
Skip Hire Prices
Sometimes, you may not have the space required on your private land for a Skip, in which case you’ll need a Skip permit. You must have a permit before the skip is placed on public land otherwise you could incur a financial penalty from your local council.
Skip permits differ in length and cost, dependent on your locality but the Mick George Group can organise this for you.
A wait and load Skip service is the perfect option for those that don’t have the space required to house a skip permanently or only require the Skip on site for a short period.
Typically, all your waste would be ready for collection, so that the Skip lorry can be loaded immediately on arrival, so that it’s a quick and cheap turnaround.
Wait and Load Skip Hire
Skip hire durations differ in length, and while there are different hire periods generally extending up to 2-weeks, the Mick George Group offer flexibility for any period if requested.
As would be expected, the longer the hire period, the higher the cost, so it’s good to have an idea when your Skip will be full.
Skip Hire Length
Hiring a Skip Process
With over 4,000 Skips available we can guarantee a next day and, in some occasions, same-day service with competitive Skip Hire prices.
You can either book online at your convenience or call our Customer Services team FREE on 0800 587 3329 (lines are open Mon – Fri, 7.30am – 5pm, closed weekends) and one of our friendly advisors will be happy to assist.
Whichever booking channel you choose, they’re both really quick and easy, with payment taken securely at the point of ordering. We accept payment by all major credit cards.
See Our Skip Hire Service in Action
Local Skip Hire Depots
Recognised as the leading Skip Hire Company throughout Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Milton Keynes, parts of Norfolk and surrounding areas, we guarantee a first-class service, taking care of all your waste requirements – supplying a vast range of skips in different sizes to help you tackle everything from small domestic work to large industrial projects.
